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...have all been impatient for the time when the damnable vagueness that surrounds public discussion of cancer prevention (Is red wine O.K. or not? Is it cool to order extra bacon with that double cheeseburger?) would be finally dispersed. That time for clarity is now, and the report should therefore have been greeted by a global outburst of thanks, with copies duplicated and shoved in every letterbox. Instead, it has been met with either irritated silence or trite complaints. The feckless comments made to a discussion thread on the BBC news website were typical: "So the choice is, eat boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save Yourself | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...much swordplay, thieving of horses, charging of war elephants, lodging of arrows in throats and so forth. There's virtually no line in this book that isn't typical of the whole, so this one will serve: "She flung herself onto the Turkoman's back and with the rank bacon smell of his oiled hair in her nostrils bit off his ear, a salt apricot between her teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Genius Who Wanted to Be a Hack | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Gordon Ramsay and April Bloomfield asked for roast beef; Jamie Oliver chose a big bowl of spaghetti chased with rice pudding; Laurent Tourondel would have a tuna sandwich with bacon, a Krispy Kreme doughnut and a Corona. Even Wylie Dufresne, famous for his exotic combinations like pickled beef tongue with fried mayonnaise, asked for scrambled eggs, a cheeseburger and a steak. "There's always a return to childhood or some country-ass thing. The word Mom comes up at least a third of the time," says Travel Channel host Anthony Bourdain, who played the last-supper game many nights when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Eat What You Are | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld, whose company makes such hardly wholesome fare as bacon, macaroni and cheese, and frozen pizza, the opportunity to buy Danone's cookie business was too tempting to resist. "It will increase our presence in snacks--our fastest-growing global segment--and transform our international business," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danone Cuts Out the Cookies | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...series of intercepted passes by the Crimson marked the first half of play, but McVeigh led an impressive breakaway across the field, passing to the left where sophomore Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon stood ready. An Eagles defender swooped in to intercept the pass right before the circle and carried the ball back to the offensive end, but missed a shot that spiraled just outside the left post...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dashed By Late BC Push | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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