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...additional differences among the six universities, including some opportunities for credit for meals missed. Brown, the university with the most lenient requirements among those schools examined, gives students $2.55 in credit for missed dining hall opportunities. Brown students can then use the credit to purchase food at university-run snack bars, offering items ranging from hamburgers to candy bars...
Dartmouth students can gain $2.25 in credit, and MIT upperclassmen can select a meal plan which offers a refund for meals not taken. Dartmouth also allows students to take their regular meals at a special snack bar area with a fixed menu, an option which is growing in popularity. "The demand is increasing for that kind of eating," said Jerry Gamble, catering manager for the Dartmouth Dining Association. "I could foresee a situation where the number of people eating from a la carte could be equal to the number of people eating in the dining hall...
...living-room window was smashed and called the police. Guns drawn, officers entered the house with John and found not a burglar but a hawk with a 2-ft. wing span perched in the living room. John Pflueger theorized that the hawk had been going after a woodpecker snack when it hurtled through the window. Things have been more peaceful of late, but the hawk and dozens of woodpeckers can still be seen, waiting, through the snow-covered boughs. Says John: "I feel a little goosy about the whole thing...
DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand of potato chips as the head of the Dallas-based Frito-Lay Co. (1961-65), but couldn't stop with just one and kept building and merging until he was board chairman (1965-71) of the giant conglomerate PepsiCo; of cancer; in Dallas...
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