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...Harvard had a stamp of certified brilliance, it would be membership in the 67-year-old Society of Fellows. Each year, the society gives eight very junior scholars--some of whom have not even completed their Ph.D.s--a hefty stipend and the opportunity to spend three years at Harvard...
...short order, Worker's Vanguard will outsell the Wall Street Journal in the Big Apple and stamp machines will replace slot machines in Vegas. Communist banners will go up as Confederate flags go down in South Carolina and dogs will be banned for life from front yards in California. New Hampshire convicts will stamp "Mao was Right, We Were Wrong" instead of "Live Free or Die" on state license plates and Oregon students will wear USPS uniforms to school, carry books from class to class in mail sacks and call for a ride home from thirty-three cent pay phones...
...people will come and go and leave their stamp," Larson says, "But the idea will continue to have life, to grow, to be exciting for years to come or at least until they abolish homelessness...
...because there is no rigorous, peer-reviewed study showing any of these diets to be effective in the long term. We also have no idea what sort of major health risks these programs might cause." Anxious dieters will have to wait some time before any regimen gets an official stamp of approval, although government officials have indicated an interest in establishing some sort of oversight. But until that happens, doctors urge caution and common sense. And back in the land of quick weight loss, it's every diet guru for himself...
That might sound convincing, until one recalls that 25% of Texas children have no health insurance and that food-stamp receipts in the state have dropped by almost half since 1995, even though 3 million Texans live in poverty. That's because people leaving welfare weren't informed that they still qualified for them. At best, Bush has been cavalier about the issue of hunger. Last December, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Texas has the second worst hunger problem, with 1 million people going hungry each day, he dismissed it out of hand. "I saw the report...