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High-fructose corn syrup poses a threat beyond simple health concerns. Michael Pollan, renowned author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” notes in the Washington Post that the substance “may be cheap in the supermarket, but in the environment it could not be more expensive.” The American corn industry, which produces grain en masse, relies on monoculture: growing one crop on the same land year after year, which depletes soil...
...What putting babies in front of this video does is deprive them of hands-on creative play, which is the foundation of learning," says Dr. Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and author of The Case for Make Believe. "Babies aren't asking to be put in front of these videos. They're not congregating in front of the watercooler to talk about Beyoncé. They don't get anything from the video that they couldn't gain from parents who play music around the house...
...another bad part does unfold, it's a safe bet the pent-up media will not leave Spears alone. "There are countless journalists bemoaning the fact that Britney is so well behaved these days," says Steve Dennis, author of the new biography Britney Spears: Inside the Dream. That said, he adds, if she can hold it together, Spears will have achieved her greatest success. "If this redemption has some longevity to it, then it will be one of show business's all- time comebacks," Dennis says. "She was staring into the abyss. But right now she's showing the world...
...those events lead to death. Only seven patients had a major event during the final three months of life. "Our main findings confirmed dementia has high mortality. People in the study didn't have other devastating things happen to them before they died," says the study's lead author, Dr. Susan Mitchell of the Harvard-affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people it's being communicated by aren't even in the jurisdiction. How are you going to effectively prevent that?" (Read a Q&A with author Christopher Andrew on MI5's secrets...