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While this second room is definitely a bit cramped, it is well stocked. It holds a wide range of weights, has a television set, and a large fan. Overall Winthrop offers a complete workout in a clean looking space. While the separation in Adams House into two equally unattractive rooms was a downside, in Winthrop this setup allows the House to provide a variety of equipment without piling things on top of each other...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Get Your Swell On: House Gyms Part 2 | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...Issues like the public school system or Section 8 housing or community policing are very hot topics in the City Council race but don’t have that much relevance to the typical 19-year-old who is living in Adams and has a different set of interests,” says Matt S. DeBergalis, a 2000 MIT graduate who narrowly lost a Council seat...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Up for City Council | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...National School Lunch Program, intended to prevent the return of Depression-era child malnourishment, allowed the government to buy surplus food from farmers and set minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Lunches | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...just be a website that posts products, and you could do that with two people and an IT person. But if the purpose of an exchange is to negotiate, assure capacity of insurance plans and collect information - that's a big new function that most states would not be set up to do." Baucus' bill would not have exchanges negotiate with insurers, but an amendment added to the bill does call for a "rating system for plans entering the state exchange based on relative quality and price." These ratings would be posted on exchange websites to allow consumers to compare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Reform: Will States Get Too Much Power? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...that it will dovetail very nicely with health reform nationally." Rhode Island, which has some of the most stringent insurance-market regulations in the country, already has guaranteed issue in the small group market (requiring insurers to accept all applicants) and strict limits on how insurance companies can set premium rates based on health status. "Changing the underwriting laws will be relatively easy for us," says Chris Koller, Rhode Island's insurance commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Reform: Will States Get Too Much Power? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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