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USA Today: Room for Worry in New Study on College Weight Gain
The 'Freshman 15' reported more like the 'Freshman 8,' but reporter Nanci Hellmich focused on complaints from nutritionists about foods offered in college dining halls.
Times Wrap: Krugman Counsels Partisanship, Herbert Finds Obama-mania
Reading their respective pay-per-view columns this morning, it's a gauge of just how far out Paul Krugman is on the port side of politics that his New York Times colleague Bob Herbert sounds positively moderate by comparison.In The Obama Bandwagon Herbert expresses salutary - and surprising - caution when it comes to the current outbreak of Obama-mania:"It’s a measure of how starved the country…
GOP Gangsta? WashPost Says Senate Challenger Tom Kean Jr. 'Fights Like
The Washington Post placed a Republican Senate challenger on the front page of Monday's Style section, but David Segal's profile of New Jersey's Tom Kean, Jr. compared the candidate to a murderous Los Angeles street gangster: Kean, "who looks like a Mountie and fights like a Crip, isn't selling honesty and integrity so much as a brand name that represents honesty and integrity." Like other…
Yet Another Democrat-Skewed Poll
It seems the closer we get to Election Day, the more polls we’re going to be subjected to that over-sample Democrats. The latest entrant comes from Newsweek (hat tip to Stop The ACLU). In this one, 24 percent more Democrats were surveyed than Republicans. Frankly, I have no interest in sharing any of the results from this survey, for if a polling agency can’t create a sample that accurately…