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...talking to schoolchildren won't change anything, he says, if the food industry doesn't change. He acknowledges there has been progress lately--McDonald's, for example, is now one of the largest purchasers of apples in the U.S.--but the core menu is the same: burgers, sodas and fries. Clinton plans to petition restaurant chains to go beyond offering healthy alternatives. He wants them to rethink how that core menu is prepared in the first place--with healthier burgers, say, or less fattening fries...
...Little Boy" worked much like firing a gun. A small explosive propelled a uranium "bullet" down a 6-ft. (1.8-m) barrel into a uranium core, triggering nuclear fission. The bomb never hit the ground. To maximize the damage, a radar proximity fuse in the tail detonated the bomb 1,900 ft. (580 m) above Hiroshima...
Both Dolin and Harrison will head research teams. Dolin’s team will lead the Center’s clinical core, while Harrison’s team will lead its structural biology core...
...consortium, which is called Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), will have labs at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Alabama. Barton Haynes, a professor of immunology at Duke University, will head CHAVI, though three Harvard professors will head three of its five core areas of research...
Professor of Medicine Norman L. Letvin ’71, one of four senior scientific directors of CHAVI, will direct the Center’s vaccine production core...