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...when the Center for Disease Control conducted its most recent survey on obesity, in 46 of the country’s 50 states over a quarter of all citizens were obese. Offering smaller portion sizes would be a small but significant step in combating this staggeringly high number. Admittedly, obesity can be caused by many factors, but it ultimately boils down to a person consuming far more calories than he burns—a habit that super-sized portions feed. A 2005 study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior showed that portion size influences overall food intake...
...Crimson, Harvard “underplays its assets in the social sciences because of the divisions across the schools and across departments.” Just as physicists or chemists can benefit from shared labs and research, so too can economists or sociologists gain from pooled resources for survey design and data collection. Perhaps more importantly, emphasis on interdisciplinary work helps create a culture of collaboration that prevents faculty from feeling that their work must fall into narrow and in some cases arbitrary departmental categories. Harvard has long hued to the mantra of “every...
Increasingly, it seems the only thing U.S. Catholics confess these days is that they rarely if ever confess. In a 2005 survey by the Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate at Georgetown University, 42% said they never go to confession. Only 14% said they go once a year, and just 2% said they go regularly. The fading away of one of Catholicism's best-known traditions has finally gotten alarming enough that bishops have begun turning to modern marketing tools to reverse it. "Confession isn't about rationalizing or explaining away the wrongs we do," says Washington Archbishop Donald...
Putnam said, just as the hard sciences profit from sharing labs, social scientists could benefit by pooling survey research technology and joining together when they sponsor surveys to increase their purchasing power...
...history concentrator in Kirkland House and the editor of The Harvard Salient. “Conservative” in habit and disposition, but not in ideology, his column, “Modernity and Its Discontents,” will critically survey the absurdities and excesses of the postmodern Academy on alternate Mondays...