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MIREILLE Guiliano, a French exchange student, eagerly rushed toward her father, who was waiting on the dock. Guiliano was returning home after an eventful year in the U.S. Her father coolly assessed his beloved daughter as she approached. "Tu ressembles ?? un sac de patates[You look like a sack of potatoes]," he told her flatly. Crushed, Guiliano, then 19, knew exactly what he was talking about. Living la vie am??ricaine, full of brownies and chocolate-chip cookies, had won her an American figure, padded with an extra 20 lbs. A return to the Continent and French habits quickly cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: How the Petite Eat | 1/20/2005 | See Source »

...anyone in liberated Fallujah what they think of Americans, they will tell you life is so much better than it was under Saddam. There are two things wrong with this assertion. First off, a spokesperson for the United Nations (UN) recently said that the 80- to 90- percent of Fallujah’s 300,000 citizens who evacuated the city during the American-led assault in November would not return until after the elections. So asking anyone anything in liberated Fallujah would be an empty effort, unless you were after a small, biased sample group...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Iraq’s Fallacies | 1/19/2005 | See Source »

Finally, just to square things as far as fallacies are concerned, the spokesperson for the UN that I quoted in the second paragraph was Marie-Helene Verney, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Too often these sorts of essays end with the author impaling himself...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Iraq’s Fallacies | 1/19/2005 | See Source »

...overall aim of the project is to dramatically reduce the poverty that affects over two billion people worldwide,” said Erin Trowbridge, communications manger of the UN Millennium Project, noting that over 1.3 billion or one-sixth of the world population live in extreme poverty...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Needed In Policy Positions | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Juma’s report also spoke of the importance of scientists in a world of rapidly emerging technology. “Science advisors will soon be a necessary part of every presidential and executive office, including the Office of the UN Secretary-General,” he said in the public release...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Needed In Policy Positions | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

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