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Food Day Satisfies Expectations and Stomachs

If you didn't make it to Food Day, or any of the food-related events last week, here's what you missed.

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Looking at Forbes' Ranking Criteria

Why did Forbes give Colby an uncommonly positive ranking at #20 in the nation, ahead of Ivies like Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown?

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Counting Down the Days

I’m sitting here in the comforts of my own dining room/makeshift home office sipping a homemade peanut butter-strawberry-banana smoothie, eating Cincinnati’s famous Skyline chili (weird combo?), wondering why I’m counting down the days until my return to the Hill.

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An Earful

This summer, I’ve had the pleasure of interning in New York City with the radio show [Marketplace](http://marketplace.publicradio.org/) and, along the way, I’ve learned that there’s more to what you hear on the air.

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Retrospective

Although I’m all graduated, The Echo will always be an important part of my life. Working there put the crazy idea into my head that writing about people was something I love and would want to do for a long time. I also loved the fools I worked with, shared computers with and was holed up in a windowless basement with until the wee hours of the morning every week. The kids I was in class with, who I ate lunch with and with whom I created some of my fondest college memories.

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BPA: A drug by any other name

Everyday each and every one of us ingests just such a chemical in Bisphenol-A or BPA through the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. BPA is an environmental estrogen, which means that it interacts with the body’s own hormone receptors in unpredictable and often harmful ways.