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Last spring, the Lamont Café Committee (LCC) solicited name suggestions for the eatery slated to open in Lamont Library this October. With a stroke of creativity, the committee has christened the eatery the “Lamont Library Caf?...
...increasing body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak diagnosis is that as a species we're carrying too much lard, exposing every system of the body to heightened risk of disease. Amid constant warnings about soaring rates of diabetes and links between fat and heart attack, stroke, dementia, cancer, arthritis and a myriad of other conditions, a view is taking hold that obesity will reverse the millennium-long trend of rising human life expectancy-that today's children will die younger than their parents. In Australia and New Zealand, various groups are pushing for numerous anti...
...healthy, just as they can be thin and sick. "It really doesn't make sense to call obesity a disease-it's a risk factor," says Stephen MacMahon, principal director of The George Institute for International Health, in Sydney. Moreover, it's a risk factor for maladies-heart disease, stroke, and even type 2 diabetes-that strike thin people...
Licensed fragrances are one way to ensure more image control and power for stars: Jennifer Lopez's fragrance, Glow, rakes in more than $100 million a year for Coty, which has just launched a scent linked to Desperate Housewives, Forbidden Fruit?either a stroke of marketing genius or a sure sign of the apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel...
...right now, the real crisis will come if the city can't resolve the post-Katrina lack of primary care and rising depression. "In five years, we'll be the stroke capital of the world, the heart disease capital of the world," warns DeBlieux. "We're going to see long-range complications from diabetes and heart disease and stress because people are neglecting primary care...