In their fight against added sugar in our foods, public health advocates are taking pointers from another battle -- the campaign against tobacco. New evidence suggests sugar, like tobacco, is addictive and harmful to long-term health. Kelly Brownell, the dean of Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, says the two fights have a lot in common.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders aren’t the first American presidential candidates to champion outside causes. “If they have been far more successful than their predecessors, this is partly because they have gone much farther in dissociating themselves from the establishment.”
Even though the state is purple now, that will surely change as we get closer to November. "(Voters’) attitudes and choices that they express now, may not be a very good guide to what they'll do in November," says political scientist David Rohde.
Heightening the tension over China's economic slowdown are its problems with air pollution and water quality problems. "Environmental quality is the major source of the rising middle class's dissatisfaction and failing to improve it will only accelerate the ongoing brain-drain and capital flight," said Duke’s Taisu Zhang. "And it is the brain-drain the government is more concerned with."
The outlook for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, a rule intended to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants, is in flux following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
“It’s hard to satirize Donald Trump because he just does it himself,” says SiriusXM Insight radio show host and comedian Pete Dominick. Dominick and two other Sirius hosts will be at Duke Monday, holding their shows during the day at Penn Pavilion and then taking part in a comedy performance that evening at Page Auditorium.
“We should remember that ISIS desperately wants to satisfy its blood lust fighting against Americans on its home turf,” says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy.
Health Care
How yesterday’s war on tobacco is shaping today’s war on sugar
In their fight against added sugar in our foods, public health advocates are taking pointers from another battle -- the campaign against tobacco. New evidence suggests sugar, like tobacco, is addictive and harmful to long-term health. Kelly Brownell, the dean of Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, says the two fights have a lot in common.
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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders aren’t the first American presidential candidates to champion outside causes. “If they have been far more successful than their predecessors, this is partly because they have gone much farther in dissociating themselves from the establishment.”
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Even though the state is purple now, that will surely change as we get closer to November. "(Voters’) attitudes and choices that they express now, may not be a very good guide to what they'll do in November," says political scientist David Rohde.
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Heightening the tension over China's economic slowdown are its problems with air pollution and water quality problems. "Environmental quality is the major source of the rising middle class's dissatisfaction and failing to improve it will only accelerate the ongoing brain-drain and capital flight," said Duke’s Taisu Zhang. "And it is the brain-drain the government is more concerned with."
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The outlook for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, a rule intended to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants, is in flux following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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“It’s hard to satirize Donald Trump because he just does it himself,” says SiriusXM Insight radio show host and comedian Pete Dominick. Dominick and two other Sirius hosts will be at Duke Monday, holding their shows during the day at Penn Pavilion and then taking part in a comedy performance that evening at Page Auditorium.
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“We should remember that ISIS desperately wants to satisfy its blood lust fighting against Americans on its home turf,” says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy.
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