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...Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown University, where activists published Ripe, a 2005 calendar featuring naked students posing with strategically positioned Rhode Island fruits and vegetables (for August, cantaloupes rest on the buttocks of the women's soccer team...
...Local food is usually tastier. When Alice Waters, the celebrity chef, helped her daughter's Yale cafeteria switch to a seasonal, regional menu (even the chips are made from organic potatoes grown in Connecticut), students from other dining halls began forging IDs to crash the feast. When Brown introduced Rhode Island Macouns and Winesaps--replacing the Red Delicious and Granny Smiths grown for long-distance trucking--apple consumption doubled. To be sure, some colleges find it easier and cheaper to install fast-food counters. And some students would just as soon dine on Kraft cheese and Cocoa Puffs ("This stuff...
Five more came from Connecticut, Wisconsin, Michigan and Rhode Island, and there were but two from the Mid-Atlantic—Ithaca, N.Y. and Gladstone, N.J.—both of whom attended prep school...
Since the beginning of the new millennium, Providence, Rhode Island’s Load Records has been a staging ground for the new noise phalanx, with Lightning Bolt leading the vanguard...
...chance to practice in those conditions.” The two regattas were only half of the events the sailing team participated in over the weekend. The Crimson’s boat finished tenth at the ICSA Sloop National Championships in Richland, Michigan. Harvard also competed in Rhode Island in the Nickerson Trophy, the New England freshman championship, where it finished sixth. By winning the Schell Trophy, the coed team was able to qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championship in Maryland two weekends from now. The women’s team has already qualified for their ACC next week...