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Lunches with fewer hamburgers and meatballs may not have caused much of a stir at New York City public schools, but a recall on beef across the country may have serious implications for a meatpacking company based in Chino, Calif.

Obese teenagers could be startlingly more prone to cardiovascular diseases upon reaching adulthood, according to a study published last month in the
New England Journal of Medicine.

Philosophy major Brendan Ballou, CC ’09, is one of four founders of Free Culture @ Columbia—a student group that promotes the easy dissemination of digital information. In a couple weeks, he’ll leave Morningside Heights for a year abroad in Cambridge, and then plans on taking a semester off before returning to Columbia in January 2009.