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...only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder that American diet books recommend reading food labels. Maybe it would be wise to recommend food with no labels: fresh fruits, vegetables, fish and bread...
...only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder that American diet books recommend reading food labels. Maybe it would be wise to recommend food with no labels: fresh fruits, vegetables, fish and bread...
Spending the Fourth of July in France is an eerie phenomenon for an American, disquieting in its silence, its indifference, its quotidian Frenchness. Absent is the cheesy but stirring spectacle: the miniature U.S. flags, the festooned Uncle Sams, the hot dogs and watermelons, the magnificent fireworks. Sitting in the Luxembourg garden (possibly the most beautiful place in the world) while reading Proust with a cheap but delicious bottle of Bordeaux, glancing up occasionally at kids kicking a soccer ball or the many menageries of pretty French girls, one wouldn’t even know the U.S. existed. Except...
...ironic that, among the 10,000 "free" search terms, even into the long-tail of unique queries, there is one search term that is noticeably absent. Maybe the adage has conditioned us to think that searching for it would be even more futile than "free money." There's not a single search for "free lunch...
What alarms modern social scientists is that in the latter part of this century the father has been sidelined in a new, more disturbing way. Today he's often just plain absent. Rising divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births mean that more than 40% of all children born between 1970 and 1984 are likely to spend much of their childhood living in single-parent homes. In 1990, 25% were living with only their mothers, compared with 5% in 1960. Says David Blankenhorn, the founder of the Institute for American Values in New York City: "This trend of fatherlessness...