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...these, as do local health food stores around the country. Experts warn that though they may sound nutritious or may be billed as "organic," salty, fried veggie chips, for instance, are often more tasty than healthy. And health-watchers steer away from sweetened, packaged "fruit" products- such as fried banana chips- which can be high in saturated fat and contain far more sugar than the fruit they're derived from. "They're not far away from regular candy," says Tim Radak, a nutritionist and program manager at the Northern California Cancer Center. "They may throw in fruit juice and call...
...says, smiling. As the Marines on the roof fire at the insurgents, Jones orders a squad to push toward the enemy position. Then the enemy weapons go quiet; the insurgents are apparently withdrawing to conserve their energy. Jones radios back to his commanders. "We saw the enemy do a banana peel back, then peel north." He chuckles. "This is every day in Ramadi...
...little Lachlans and Ellies have been dropped off at school; the cleaner has the run of the house. Baristas awake! Half a dozen of John Howard's welfare mothers, some with prams and pre-schoolers, are squeezing around a couple of tables joined to hold the double-shot lattes, banana bread and babycinos that will in due course rest on six separate bills. They are an exclusive club, to be sure; some 3,000 wealthy stay-at-home mums-married to bankers, doctors or entrepreneurs who make $A250,000 or more a year-receive Family Tax Benefit...
Pity the poor body. Since philosopher René Descartes uncoupled it from the mind in the 17th century, it has been second banana. Storytellers have fetishized the mind and exalted it as the locus of character and the self. The body has been along mainly for the ride ever since, the mind's sherpa...
...which differentiates them from the undergraduate population. Though a gap of merely five to seven years separates the nubile undergraduate from the average woebegone TF, it is very hard to mistake one for the other.Thus, for interested parties, I have codified TF fashion, in order to both celebrate their Banana Republic fabulousness and inform the surrounding populace about how to identify them on the street. You know, so as not to complain about them in their presence.Type 1: The “Your first language was definitely not English, but you are so freaking metrosexual that I love you anyway?...