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...that this will play into the science-based pressure on food suppliers to reduce a lot of the extra salt that they put into our products,” Cutler said. According to Shiriki K. Kumanyika, another member of the team, it is unlikely that a study of this scale will be repeated, although could influence future studies. “I think the principle has been established,” she said, “and the next study should focus on how it should be implemented...
...completely ridiculous, but on the other hand, if you think about it, it’s true.”Shortly after my initial exposure, I sought out and attended a local air guitar competition. I learned that contestants’ scores are determined by a figure-skating-style scale. A competitor receives zero to six points in three different categories: technical merit, stage presence, and—most important—“airness.” “The formal definition of airness,” explains Jung, “is the extent to which...
...what it is,” says Maria Teresa Herrera ’07, co-chair of Presencia. “It means so much to them.”Producer Keny Zurita ’09 sees their appearance as significant for the Latino community on a larger scale. “I think they serve as a good parallel for the lives of so many Latinos specifically in the U.S.,” he says. “They sort of went at it a different way, but for so many of us at Harvard, there?...
...minimum sentences increase the efficiency of the already-slow court system by cutting down on time needed to deliberate and determine a sentence. What is needed, then, are mandatory minimum sentencing laws that balance justice and the need to reform criminals with the benefits of having mandatory minimums. The scale has tipped too far away from the former. It is high time for Massachusetts to examine at what cost mandatory minimum sentences are providing consistency, judicial efficiency, and the appearance of a “tough on crime stance.” Such a review may not be the most...
...some of the blame for the Virginia killings at the feet of politicians. "I am saddened and sickened, my heart hurts for those people - I've been there," Hupp said. "But at the same time I am angry - even with the sadness - because this was largely preventable on the scale that it happened. The politicians haven't figured it out. They have created gun-free zones, and all of the dreadful things that have happened were in these gun-free zones...