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...Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people in the developing countries do not receive a balanced diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: War on Big Portions | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...magnetic particle of one pole, either north or south. It would, in effect, be the equivalent of the positive proton or negative electron that exists independently in nature. But all magnetized objects, from subatomic particles to giant electromagnets, seemed to have inseparable north and south poles. Broken into the tiniest segments, each piece remained a "dipole." No isolated north or south monopole could be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bring It Back Alive | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...Susan looked alarmingly emaciated, with sunken eyes and fragile, sticklike arms and legs. Though she was 5 ft. 5 in. tall, she weighed only 70 lbs. and scorned all but the tiniest morsels of food. Amazingly, Susan believed herself to be too fat and maintained a frenzied level of physical exercise to help keep any weight off her scrawny frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Self-Starvers | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Crooks is a man who seems the tiniest fraction of a beat out of synch with Harvard, a man who describes himself as "sort of on the edge" of things here, as "not quite in the main stream...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...quite so perfect. Crooks is a man who seems the tiniest fraction of a beat out of synch with Harvard, a man who describes himself as "sort of on the edge" of things here, as "not quite in the main stream." He is director of a substantial fiefdom--but one very much apart from the rest of Harvard in time and in its basic assumptions and standards. He was a House master--but of the non-resident, catch all House. He graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

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