Word: seeley
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Yale is one-upping us again. They’re moving forward with plans to build two new residential colleges—sticking to plans to demolish historic buildings including the Seeley G. Mudd Library, Hammond Hall, and Brewster Hall—while our much touted “House renewal” process won’t start until at least 2012, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. Some locals and preservationists may be fighting for the buildings to be saved, but Yale University President Richard Levin told the Yale Daily News that...
...last night as a single man. Spartan soldiers held a dinner in their friend's honor and made toasts on his behalf - with, one assumes, a Spartan sense of decorum. Since then, the events have generally grown more raucous. In 1896, a stag party thrown by Herbert Barnum Seeley - a grandson of P.T. Barnum - for his brother was raided by police after rumors circulated that a famous belly dancer would be performing nude. Before his wedding to Gloria Hatrick, Jimmy Stewart's infamous bash at the Beverly Hills hangout Chasen's included midgets popping out of a serving dish...
...among kids ages just 2 to 5. And as with adults, that's just obesity. Include all overweight kids, and a whopping 32% of all American children now carry more pounds than they should. "There's no way to overestimate how scary numbers like this are," says Seeley...
...Health experts warn that the current generation of children may be the first in American history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents'. "The more overweight you are, the worse all of these things will be for you," says acting U.S. Surgeon General Steven Galson. And, warns Seeley, the worse they are likely to stay: "When you're talking about morbidly obese kids, zero percent will grow up to be normal-weight adults...
...that public-awareness programs and improved menus in many school cafeterias are producing results or merely that some kind of saturation point has been reached, with most kids genetically susceptible to gaining too much weight having done so. "Whether this is meaningful data, we don't know yet," says Seeley. "But anyone who wants to stick a flag in this and declare victory is just crazy...