Word: weighted
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...Healthy Eating Pyramid” devised by nutrition experts at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), alongside white bread, potatoes, soda, and sweets. According to the HSPH site, these items “can cause fast and furious increases in blood sugar that can lead to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic disorders.” Although HSPH experts say that the items at the top of the pyramid should be used “sparingly,” HUDS has actually increased their presence in the dining halls in the face of higher costs. Rather than...
...hand to award Christensen the first Paul Turner High Jump Award. In the field events that took place primarily on Saturday, the Harvard squad had a tough time getting things going. Junior Neville Irani started things off with a 16.77m (55’2.5”) weight throw, good enough for an eighth-place bid.Freshman Sean Gil followed, earning fifth place in the men’s pole vault with a 4.80m (15’9”), just .2 m shy of the leader.Hot off last year’s 3.80m (12?...
...soon-to-be-yuppie emerging from the throes of e-recruiting, I ex ante believe that jobs should be rewarded to those who can establish their qualifications in a substantive, structured and tangible way—namely, through policy debates. But in the end, my vote carries the same weight as that of the senior citizen concerned about losing her drug benefits to an overly ambitious tax plan, the concerned father who doesn’t want his daughter to think that the only way to become president is to marry one, and the recently unemployed steel worker who just...
...which is the disorder most discussed in the context of these debates) not experience any benefit from taking this type of medication, but they might experience any number of these medications’ undesirable side effects, which include insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, muscle pain, increased sweatiness, nausea, constant fatigue, extreme weight gain, memory loss, decreased sexual desire, and inability to orgasm. (Let people who question the reality of depression note that people who take antidepressants decide that living with these pretty awful side effects is better than living with depression.) No one would choose to take these medications just for kicks...
...apex of Bolaño’s posthumous acclaim in the English-speaking world. The title of a 2007 New York Review of Books article says it all: “The Great Bolaño.” Yet it is here, away from the weight and reverence surrounding Bolaño’s best-known work, that his central concerns—the place and politics of the written word and those who produce it—take a subsidiary role to the abilities that make him memorable. His dark, biting sense of irony, stunning range...