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...been gradually creeping down. "In my own practice," he says, "it used to be about 70 years of age, and now it's about 65." With better-lasting implants and better surgical techniques, he observes, "people are much less reluctant to jump in." Changing attitudes will likely accelerate this trend. "Baby boomers want to be active and they are not willing to accept disability, so they seek out surgery earlier than their parents...
...weight-obsessed era of fad diets and diminishing waist sizes, what role do colleges play in ensuring that students have a healthy relationship with food? When do habits of college students who are watching what they eat go from healthy to unhealthy?THE HARVARD GUIDE TO FOODThe latest trend in university dining halls is to make the nutritional information of every dish more accessible. For the past 10 years, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has placed individual index cards next to each dish detailing food figures such as grams of fat, serving size, and most prominently, number of calories...
...take away the trays.” Even during the trial run in Quincy, students were able to request a tray. Sometimes busy days warrant trays, Martin said, “Heaven forbid you break your arm,” she added. The test run in Quincy reflects a trend in university dining halls across the country. St. Joseph’s College in Maine first introduced trayless dining this fall. Several other colleges and universities, including Middlebury College in Vermont, San Francisco State University, University of California San Diego, and Alfred University in New York have since followed suit...
...earned over a billion dollars in revenue in just 26 months. In 2007, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world, produced a revenue of only 196.3 million dollars.What the “Guitar Hero” explosion indicates is a larger American trend that seems perfectly summed up by Staples’ “Easy Button” commercials. More and more, we relax and rely on the technology around us to perform tasks that used to be an integral part of getting out and being human.During the 2006 holiday season media blitz...
...Cardinal Bertone's book helps make clear, the announcement served several purposes. The double beatification and the publication of the third secret endorsed the kind of potent popular piety inspired by Marian apparitions, a trend in popular Catholicism that had gained momentum in the 20th century. But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid rhythms of modern institutional religious life...