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...amount of dye and sodium benzoate typically found in a British child's diet, a second drink had a lower concentration of the additives, and a third was additive-free. All the children spent a week drinking each of the three mixtures, which looked and tasted alike. During each weeklong period, teachers and parents, who did not know which drink the kids were getting, used a variety of standardized behavior-evaluation tools - some observational and one computer-based - to size up such qualities as restlessness, lack of concentration, fidgeting, and talking or interrupting too much. (See nine kid foods...
...month stay in Nepal, my father joined me for a weeklong trek in the kingdom of Upper Mustang that had culminated with a night in the walled city of Lo Monthang and a visit with a king...
David Neeleman's weeklong media apology tour took the JetBlue CEO from the Today show to David Letterman to Anderson Cooper to beg forgiveness for the popular airline's Valentine's Day debacle. The company had stranded more than 100,000 travelers after bad weather decimated its operating ability--in one case JetBlue passengers were left on a snowed-in runway for more than nine hours. Neeleman's mea culpa reached its apogee with a series of full-page national-newspaper ads: "Words cannot express how truly sorry we are for the anxiety, frustration and inconvenience that you, your family...
There were moments during President Bush's weeklong Latin American tour, which ended Wednesday, when he looked like a man at an anger-management session. Five years ago, Bush turned his back on Latin America - petulantly disengaging from issues that mattered most to Latin capitals like immigration reform and U.S. agriculture subsidies - because most of its nations refused to back his Iraq invasion. Since then, much of the region has turned leftward and anti-U.S. Bush was reminded about this at each stop of his five-nation tour - and each time his initial reaction was to hunch his shoulders...
...character Colbert and about 10 Harvard students from the IOP. “I think it’s going to be part of the show,” Mendy said. Later, Colbert attended a luncheon at the Charles Hotel, the culmination of the IOP’s weeklong summit for newly-elected members of Congress. According to Mendy, parts of the function were filmed, and Colbert invited a number of the Congress members to appear on BKAD. Crews from “The Colbert Report” were on hand at the Forum interview, and certain moments seemed potentially...