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...carbohydrate diets, which often contain considerable fat, are good? Is it really O.K., as Atkins advocates, to slather mayonnaise all over salmon and tuna and douse asparagus and lobster with butter while friends look on in envy? Shades of the 1973 movie Sleeper, in which Woody Allen plays a 20th century Rip Van Winkle who awakens after a couple of hundred years to a world in which fatty delights like steak and cream pies are deemed beneficial to one's health...
...Despite a continued love for their "Queen of Hearts," today's Britain shows a cooling of the national Diana obsession; while a recent survey of Britons, commissioned by the History Channel, named Diana's death the 20th century's most important British event, another poll suggests many are slowly moving on. British polling firm Mori Research found rising approval ratings for Prince Charles, the Queen and even Camilla Parker-Bowles (whom Diana nicknamed the "Rottweiler...
...guess what? Wind is becoming more than a quixotic sideshow. It's now the world's fastest growing power source--a high-tech challenge to the coal mines, oil rigs, nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams that seem, well, so 20th century. Experts say wind could provide up to 12% of the earth's electricity within two decades. Wind farms in Texas, Oregon, Kansas and elsewhere helped lift U.S. wind-energy output 66% last year, and an additional $3 billion in American projects are in the works. "Wind is competitive," wrote Mark Moody-Stewart, the former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell...
...beginning. Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia is a vivid, intimate portrait of a continent--and a young man--in flux. As the Asian economies come of age, Greenfeld takes the reader on a tour of the giddy highs and lurid lows of late 20th century Asian life. "There was a wicked sorcery in Asia," he writes, and in Standard Deviations he deconstructs that magic...
Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately...