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Several university newspapers have reported three-fold to four-fold price increases—for instance, from roughly $8 to roughly $40 at Kansas State University, according to the University Daily Kansan. The Columbia Daily Spectator wrote that many students were forgoing their purchases of birth control pills rather than pay the inflated prices...
...friend eating it, I thought, That looks like it could come from any good restaurant. And it's cheaper and easier than eating off campus." Such words herald a small battle won in the big food fight erupting over U.S. lunchrooms. With childhood-obesity rates zooming--more than a three-fold increase in 30 years--schools are under pressure from parents, health officials and legislators to serve something more wholesome than greasy burgers and Tater Tots. Across the U.S., administrators are banning deep-fat fryers from cafeteria kitchens. Sodamakers agreed last month to stop selling their sugary, fizzy products...
Instead of admitting their desire to join this oppressive boycott, the signatories to the petition blamed Jews for oppressing and displacing the Palestinian Arabs. The petitioners’ offense was thus three-fold: they joined the war against Israel, they absolved Arab leaders of their historical and ongoing role in ensuring that Palestinian Arabs remain “refugees,” and they tried to hold Israel responsible for what the Arab League had wrought. Since then, British professors have taken this process a giant step forward by trying to bar Israeli academics from academic journals. And just...
...Emergency Communications Department serves a three-fold function for Cambridge’s citizens: it dispatches emergency responders to the scene; it instructs callers on how to deal with emergencies that can’t wait; and it acts as a centralized switchboard for all municipal departments and services, such as the fire and police departments...
...tight budget is only one aspect of a three-fold problem confronting concert organizers at Harvard, according to HCC Director Jack P. McCambridge...