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“Vectors of Disease”: Mark Bittman on the New York City Big Gulp Ban

Gulp. That’s how some have responded to New York City’s audacious ban on super-size sodas. Food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on this heavy debate in a New York Times editorial published in March, 2013.

Read it here: Bittman, "Banning the Big Gulp Ban"

 

Is It Still School?: The New York Times on Online Courses

Online courses are a topic of hot debate, with schools large and small, public and private, hurrying to develop programs and establish themselves in this new educational frontier. Are they moving in the right directions? Are they making decisions that take student needs into consideration? This New York Times editorial published in February 2013 begins to address these questions.

Read it here: New York Times, "The Trouble with Online College"