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Just as it was difficult to gauge the size of the five-hour long march through Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue—estimates ranged from 200,000 to half a million—it was hard to put a number on the Harvard faces in the crowd, most of whom wore neither Harvard t-shirts nor Coop bags. Student organizers said that up to 75 undergraduates participated...
...everyone in the crowds that lined Seventh Avenue opposed President Bush’s policies...
Studies of Seventh-Day Adventists in Utah support this finding. Those unusually clean-living Americans are genetically diverse, but they avoid alcohol, caffeine and tobacco--and they tend to live an average of eight years longer than their countrymen. All of this is good news, with a Surgeon General's warning attached: you can't change your genes, but you can change what you eat and how much you exercise. "The lesson is pretty clear from my point of view in terms of what the average person should be doing," says Perls. "I strongly believe that with some changes...
...presumptuous of Nancy Gibbs, in her Essay "And on the Seventh Day We Rested?" to suggest that the U.S. needs to have Sundays off as a day of rest [Aug. 2]. A large part of the U.S. population is Muslim, and the Islamic faith designates Friday as the day of prayer. Jews observe the Sabbath from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday. So how can we expect a pluralistic society like America's to settle on just one day of rest? When blue laws restricting what could be sold on Sundays were enforced, Jewish and Muslim Americans could...
...tasters, and many bed-and-breakfasts sport spectacular views of the snowcapped Andes. At the Familia Zuccardi vineyard, guests at asados (meat-grilling parties) are treated to tango shows. The influx has also shone a spotlight on Mendoza institutions like 1884, which Restaurant magazine recently rated the world's seventh best restaurant, and the Park Hyatt, which offers wine-tasting salons as earnestly as other hotels advertise Internet service...