Word: salads
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...lunch in Quincy Katzen herself does not have any vegetables on her plate. There is only a binder and a packed itinerary. This was her third visit to Cambridge, so she knew her way around the sneeze-guarded salad bar by now. “I’m getting some clues as to what the whole system is like,” she says. “I’m interested in what students are choosing...
DIED. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, influential, hackle-raising weight-loss guru; of severe head injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk on April 8; in New York City. He bucked convention in his 1972 best seller Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, which advised dieters to trash the fruit salad in favor of high-protein, high-fat goodies like bacon cheeseburgers and butter, arguing that without carbohydrates to burn, the body would burn its own fat. Many of the 30 million who have tried the diet swear by it. But his regimen rankled mainstream medical groups, which called it extreme and said...
...conceded the defendant - a man named Yves Verwaerde - he had opened a $2 million Swiss bank account with the code name "Salad" in July 1991, when he was a Member of the European Parliament. It was his other employer at the time, the French oil company Elf, that asked him to open the account, he explained. The salad full of greenbacks was earmarked for Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader in Angola, where Elf was negotiating important contracts. Listening intently in the wood-paneled courtroom of the Paris Tribunal last week, Judge Michel Desplan had some questions. If this $2 million...
...Quincy dining hall has suddenly become easier to navigate and slightly more welcoming. Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) recently reorganized Quincy’s serving line, rearranged its salad bar, put Fair Trade coffee in its carafes everyday and improved its steam table displays. But HUDS admits that these changes came as tradeoffs for yet another delay of Quincy dining hall’s long-awaited renovation—formerly expected to come this summer and now slated for a year later, in the summer of 2004. Similarly, Dunster and Mather dining halls, also potentially facing long waits before overdue...
...improvements to be made more easily than others. And minor changes can make dining halls feel more welcoming. But despite the difficulties of securing necessary renovation funds, HUDS must recognize what makes the dining hall experience, for many, unsatisfactory: the lack of renovated dining halls, not a poorly arranged salad...