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Instead, I know the specific number I ate because I am keeping a food diary. I write down everything I consume, with great detail. I had a single packet of ketchup with my eggs the other morning and 4 oz. (113 g) of green-tea-flavored frozen yogurt with my daughter two days before that. I started the diary because I wanted to test the striking new results of a paper published in the August issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Scientists at several clinical-research centers in the U.S. found that dieters who kept a food diary lost...
...first appointee had no intention of writing odes to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren said in 1986 that he "couldn't write to order" even if asked, and he spent his tenure overseeing the library's poetry collection. Subsequent laureates have used the position to broaden the reach of poetry in America. Joseph Brodsky championed poetry in public places; Robert Hass started an annual student competition; Billy Collins launched a website with a poem for every day of the school year. Ryan isn't yet sure what she's going to do but notes that she is constitutionally...
...will leave Minnesota with a few new friends—all of us suffering from exhaustion—and a great new wardrobe of jackets and seersucker suits. And while I will return to The Crimson as a designer, I may fool myself into believing that I can actually write...
...Although Ryan hasn't decided what her project will be, she agrees with those who feel that poetry's "uselessness" is precisely what makes it cool. As Matthew Zapruder, a poet and an editor at Wave Press, observes, "The idea that you write poetry your whole life and then suddenly in a very public way have to start thinking about how to make it 'useful' for the nation is pretty terrifying. In a culture like ours, where language has been completely and utterly subordinated to the task of selling people things, how do you create a little freedom? Only...
...Commission, the E.U.'s executive branch, accompanied its damning report on life in the Balkan nation today with the announcement that it is freezing E.U. aid worth nearly $790 million, stripping two Bulgarian agencies of the right to manage E.U. funds, and will order Sofia to write a new penal code to deliver more effective justice. "The fight against high-level corruption and organized crime is not producing results," the Commission said in its report. "Corruption and fraud is affecting the delivery of E.U. financial assistance ... A clear strategy to cleanse the system is needed." A separate report...