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According to incoming fellows committee chair David M. Kaden ’06, the IOP has also offered fellowships to former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, whose father was Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and failed Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, one of the Republican Party’s rising stars...
...year ago, Ashlee Townsend, then 14, was running out of options. At 5 ft. 4 in., she weighed 330 lbs. and had developed Type 2 diabetes--a potentially life-threatening illness that usually doesn't occur before middle age. Ashlee had tried all sorts of diets, but none of them seemed to work. By third grade, she had so much difficulty walking that she started missing a lot of school. Then she underwent an operation that reduced her stomach from the size of a football to the size of an egg. In the 12 months since, she has lost...
...Townsend is testing one of the most controversial weapons in the war against childhood obesity. Although the number is still small--doctors estimate that perhaps 150 U.S. teens have undergone so-called gastric-bypass surgery--it could jump dramatically. The percentage of children who are overweight and obese has tripled, from about 5% in 1980 to 15% in 2000, and a dozen hospitals around the U.S. either have started doing gastric bypasses on kids or are planning to. Dr. Thomas Inge of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where Ashlee had the surgery, estimates that as many as 250,000 American...
...think it would really be unfortunate to miss this experience,” said Nicole Townsend ’07, who admitted to not looking both ways before she crossed JFK St. on the bridge...
DIED. PAUL CONKLIN, 74, the Peace Corps's first official photographer, whose famous shot of a Vietnam War protester placing a daisy in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun crystallized the antiwar sentiments of a generation; of cancer; in Port Townsend, Wash...