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...diabetes nurse-educator, I am gravely concerned about Yum Brands' impact on global health [Jan. 28]. On a recent tour of hospitals in China with a delegation from the American Association of Diabetes Educators, I saw the detrimental results of fast food's rise in overseas markets. As the industry pushes its high-fat, high-cholesterol, meat-based foods, rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke are skyrocketing. Obesity rates have tripled over the past 20 years in countries that have adopted the American diet, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2007. Rates...
...capable of getting any shot back over the net and extending rallies into painful long-distance sprints for his opponents. But this tendency came at the price of hiding Clayton’s strong underlying game. According to Rueb, when Harvard tennis great James Blake ’01 saw Clayton playing as a freshman, he was impressed but told him he had to step up and attack short balls. “He had a tendency to step back and allow his legs to bail him out,” Rueb said. But that tendency has been erased...
...aboard the Tay Train. That might well become the motto of the Harvard women’s basketball team, which saw its repeat Ivy Title bid hang precipitously in the balance in an unlikely nail-biter with woeful Penn (3-15, 0-3 Ivy) on Friday night. Then junior guard Emily Tay, who shredded the Quakers’ defense all night, found one last, all-important hole and buried a jumper with 14 ticks left to seal the Crimson’s furious 63-62 comeback win over visiting Penn. Tay’s last-minute heroics—made...
...gate, while Princeton—one of the teams expected to make a serious run at Harvard’s league title—drops to 1-2. Early on, the game was a showcase of both teams’ offensive potency: the first six minutes saw hot shooting and a fast pace on both ends as the Crimson jumped out to a 17-9 lead on 7-for-10 shooting. But the Tigers kept the game close with some accurate shooting of their own, getting timely points from guard Caitlin O’Neill (nine points). A jumper from...
...explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled out my gun and saw him reaching towards his explosives belt. I fired at the terrorist...