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...warned that unless the food industry backs off from marketing sugary, salty, fat-saturated products to youth, Brussels could introduce legislation restricting ads during children's TV programs. In March, the E.C. will begin working with the food industry, educators, health experts and consumer organizations to launch a voluntary scheme promoting healthy eating and exercise. "In and of itself I doubt it will be enough,'' concedes Jim Murray, director general of the European Consumer Association. Also, one man's junk food is another man's job - expect to hear a lot in coming months about the health benefits of chips...
...never-used, seven-building public housing estate, and the Housing Authority's attempt to sell shares in the largest ever real estate investment trust-were suspended (at least temporarily) after public opposition and, in the latter case, a legal challenge. Public ire is currently being directed at a visionary scheme that could be Tung's greatest contribution to a city often derided as a cultural desert: an arts center to be built on 40 weedy hectares of reclaimed harborfront land. First introduced in Tung's 1999 policy address, and later refined with a master plan by British architect Norman Foster...
According to the police report, there are five known victims of the scheme, but The Crimson has located at least two more victims—including a Harvard undergraduate—who were cheated...
Shannon S. Christmas ’04, who helped uncover the scheme, remembers searching Craigslist for a new apartment in Cambridge last September when he came across Vaghar’s offer. His graduate school dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had become too cramped. Vaghar said that she was going to be working as a paralegal in New York and wanted to rent her apartment...
...scheme of electronic applications, it was one of the easier ones to develop,” he said...