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David, Berry’s husband of 10 years, worked as a director of research for the brokerage firm Keefe, Bruyette and Woods on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center and was in the South Tower that morning...
This was the hour during Freshman Week when I leaned back in my desk chair and stared out my common room window to collect my thoughts. From the fourth floor of Canaday A, I took a moment to meditate on the illuminated Memorial Hall tower rising up majestically from behind the entryways across the courtyard. The scene provided an incredible backdrop for a moment of reflection. How did I get to live and study in a place like this? How many others had admired this very same view? What would the rest of college be like...
Call them the obesity warriors. Restaurant-and food-industry lobbyists have called them "nutrition nannies" and the "food police." But Brownell, Nestle, Ludwig, Sallis and a few other scientists have stepped out of the ivory tower of academe to challenge communities, industry and government to do more to fight obesity and especially to prevent it from afflicting more children. Taking cues from the battle against smoking, these scientists write books, they lecture at meetings--including food-industry gatherings--they dash off op-ed pieces and they spend generous amounts of time talking with reporters from major networks, newspapers and magazines...
...Trump Tower is now a stop on the Manhattan TV and movie tour. Fans can't get into the firing room but can gaze at the fountain and you're fired sign outside. Cost: $30 for the city tour
...custody of Berg. After he was released, the U.S. consulate offered to arrange for him to fly out of Baghdad, but he refused. Instead, he told friends and family that he planned to drive to Kuwait or Turkey. On April 10, he checked out of Baghdad's Al-Fanar Tower Hotel, suitcase in hand, and disappeared. U.S. soldiers found his decapitated body a month later...