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Across the aisle from the usual sugar-laden fare in 7-Eleven sits the latest confection to join the Atkins diet craze, a high-tech chocolate bar called Z-Carb. The Z is short for zero--as in "Zero Carbs, Zero Guilt, Zero Laxative Effect"--but we'll get to that last bit later. A Z-Carb is half the size of a Milky Way and twice as expensive and, if the history of dietary snack substitutes is any guide, ought to taste like a Post-it note, only blander. Not so. This is a no-sugar, no-carbohydrate treat...
Groundbreaking began this month on a vacant parking lot at Zero Arrow Street, in preparation for building the new Market Theater, which used to make its home on John F. Kennedy Street...
...many scientists outside government, in short, the glass seems half empty at best. For scientists like Dr. Elias Zerhoun, director of the National Institutes of Health, it's evidently half full. "Remember," he says, "that before the President made his decision, there was zero federal support for embryonic-stem-cell research." But with a potentially lifesaving technology like this one, half full may not be enough. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington
...goal...is to maintain the real value of the endowment and spending over time,” Meyer said. An increase of “zero [percent] is not that out of the ordinary in real dollars...
...Manoj Ramachandran ’05 traveled to Houston at the end of July to attend NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Along with teams from other colleges, they conducted a novel scientific experiment in a plane designed to simulate a zero-gravity environment...