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...Gates prepares to step down as Af-Am chair this June, he has proved to be a valiant gatekeeper, steering the department through an almost threefold drop in concentrators...
Besides mending the rifts in the Harvard community in his early years, Bok also oversaw the implementation of the Core Curriculum and, during his last decade, saw a threefold increase in the University’s endowment...
OBESITY The obesity epidemic and its attendant health risks continued to spread around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the number of adults who are overweight or obese passed the 1 billion mark in 2005. Although obesity rates have grown threefold or more since 1980 in some parts of the U.S., Britain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Western Pacific Islands, some of the most rapid increases are found in developing countries. The cause is the same everywhere: increased consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food high in saturated fats and sugar, combined with a decrease...
Under the FLP, HUDS has also increased local buying, which has, according to Snyder, a “threefold positive impact.” It supports the local economy, decreases use of fossil fuels burned during shipping, and helps preserve the tradition of regional agriculture...
More than 2 million Americans last year underwent the frequently nerve-racking experience of taking a lie-detector test, or polygraph examination, a threefold increase in a decade. Fully 98% of the tests were ordered not by police but by private employers, who used them mainly to screen job applicants. Now Congress, many of whose members view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying...