We are continually bombarded with the message that exercise is beneficial. A moderate amount of activity has been shown to do everything from lower our risk of heart disease to improve our dating life. As Martha Stewart would say, "Exercise - it's a good thing!"
"Amy's No-Chicken Noodle soup and my mom," I whimpered when a friend asked what I wanted. I was suffering from the worst kind of cold: the kind that made me trade books for blankets and a Friday-night party for the quiet comfort of my bed.
Organic products are quickly taking over the grocery shelves of America. If you walk down any grocery store aisle you will find organic labels on everything from carrots to laundry detergent. With so many choices it can be confusing for a consumer to know when, or if, it is really necessary to buy an organically labeled product. But while the high cost of purchasing organic is often difficult to reconcile, there is some evidence indicating that consuming organically grown foods - produce specifically - may provide certain health benefits.
"The terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks. It remains essential to the security of America. If there are people inside our country who are talking with Al Qaida, we want to know about it, because we will not sit back and wait to be hit again."
Do you care who controls your ports? That is the issue at hand now, as a firestorm has erupted over a deal that allowed a company run by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to control six major ports along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.
Have you looked at the Nutrition Facts and ingredients labels on your favorite foods lately? Notice any changes?
When The Who sang about their generation back in the '60s, it marked a dividing line between the cool young Mods and the old, crusty Establishment. Listening to the song today, you have to think they knew what they were talking about.
Lindsay Lohan graced the cover of Vogue magazine. Mary-Kate Olsen made headlines in People. Ashlee Simpson was featured on "Entertainment Tonight." Young celebrities are highlighted in major publications and on television shows every day for their entertainment successes, extravagant vacations and steamy love lives.
A three-hour drama about the life of a typical Greek-American family may not sound particularly exciting, but "Flesh and Blood" more than engages its audience. The Stassos family isn't so ordinary, after all.
Now that the swim season is over, I would like to recognize the efforts that go into this sport.
I was on Google Earth the other day, idly messing around with the perks that come from a rising empire and near omnipotence. Then, I noticed something about one of Tufts' time-honored traditions. If we assume that our cannon atop the hill is aligned with Ballou Hall and the chapel, it cannot possibly be pointing at Harvard. How depressing: our single icon of animosity towards the Ivy League's poster boy is ironically also a symbol of our own ineptitude.
I have a little bit of apologizing to do. As you probably didn't notice, "Blight" took a short hiatus at the beginning of this semester, and it was entirely my fault. I'll get to the explanation of my week-long early retirement by the end of this column. For now, just consider it sort of like what happens to "Scrubs" every season except instead of having my spot taken by back-to-back-to-back episodes of "The Apprentice," I got replaced by a blurry ad for Domino's.
As a current member of the Experimental College board and an Explorations Leader this past fall, I cannot stress enough what participating in these programs has meant to my undergraduate experience at Tufts. Very rarely will you find so many opportunities for student leadership and meaningful involvement, and I am grateful for the chance to have been a part of it.
What do Procter & Gamble, Intel and Avon have in common? They are all multi-billion dollar corporations, they all trade at over $20 a share, they all conduct business globally - and all three are in the top 10 of Business Ethics Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list.
A rollercoaster season came to an end for the women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon, as the Bowdoin Polar Bears overcame a one-point halftime deficit to beat the Jumbos 52-41 and advance to the NESCAC semifinals.
As far as jobs go, "leader of the free world" is presumably way up there on the stress-o-meter: A little bit of anxiety is to be expected when you're living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But according to a new study by Duke University researchers that used biographical and secondary sources to retroactively assess the mental health of previous U.S. presidents, a little bit of anxiety was the least of some presidents' mental health issues. In this installment of "By the Numbers," the Daily explores the results of the study, which were published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. (Its ultimate conclusion? "Mental illness in heads of state is a topic deserving further attention.")
The George Clooney film "Good Night, and Good Luck" has racked up six Oscar nominations for its portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow and his reporting during the McCarthy era.
The photo accompanying Friday's news article "Medina's memory honored" (Feb. 17, 2006) was erroneously captioned. The woman pictured in the photo is former Medina colleague and current Academic Resource Center (ARC) Director Carmen Lowe, not Medina's former ARC colleague Lara Birk. The Daily regrets the error.
Okay, ready? Think fast. In what ways are numbers related to sex? You have five seconds. Got any thoughts? Well, if you do, you're sharper than I am. Maybe it's just me and my hatred of all things mathematical and my love of (almost) all things sexual, but I don't see where anyone gets off mixing numbers and sex.
Everyone knows the classic symbol for theater: Two separate masks, one weeping and one laughing. In their refusal to meld into one, they misleadingly suggest a theatrical work must either be a comedy or a tragedy.
