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Harvard’s checkbooks may be fat, but its students aren’t. Harvard’s high proportion of student athletes and a general perfectionist attitude have likely spared it from the national obesity epidemic??look around any dining hall to see students noticeably thinner than the national average. Of course, the same factors that keep us fit also leave us vulnerable to eating disorders. However, HUDS’s recent decision to remove nutritional information from dining hall placards will not only serve as an ineffective means of fighting eating disorders, but also deprive...
...Federal Trade Commission concerning the “Mature” rating for the popular game, “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.” She wanted the rating upgraded to “Adults Only” because of a “silent epidemic?? of violent games among vulnerable children. The senator, of all people, should know that the deplorable state of children’s healthcare is a far more serious problem when it comes to protecting kids. But, most of all, the whole saga speaks to the laziness of D.C. politicking. Censoring...
Rockefeller soon followed suit. Last March, it told Harvard that grantees—who have received money from Rockefeller to study issues like the global AIDS epidemic??could not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity...
...National Report on Crime and Justice states that three out of four American women will be victims of violent crimes sometime during their lives. In 1995 Lonnie Bristow, M.D., former president of the American Medical Association, described sexual assault as “a ‘silent-violent epidemic?? growing at an alarming rate and traumatizing the women and children of our nation.” Statistics show that sexual assault occurs every 45 seconds in America. But it is the attacks in our own backyard, despite declining rates of crime in Cambridge as a whole, which...
...newsletter—printed in full color and entitled The Silent Epidemic??offers statistics and various anecdotes strongly discouraging abortion...