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Which is why I'm so enjoying the Bush Administration's recent heartburn over its new regulations on the emission of mercury, a nasty neurotoxin that in recent years has become the bane of pregnant women because of its accumulation in popular fish like tuna. As with lead, adults can process an impressive amount of mercury before major damage is done. Not so fetuses. In 2004 the Federal Government warned pregnant women against eating more than 6 oz. of albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant...
Friday, March 18. Harvard Book Store presents Mary Joe Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins discussing Taking Faith Seriously. 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
...first fought against recipes that called for the culinary ease of prepackaged powdered soup and then the dietary benefits of defatted cheese. "Fake food--I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut--is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking," she said. "I just hate health food...
...already ruled Roh's faux pas to be a minor one. However, what the National Assembly provided was a perfect example of "rule by law"?the opportunistic, unprincipled and entirely situational use of legal statutes by the powerful to gain political advantage. Such a practice has been the bane of unscrupulous Confucian governments throughout East Asian history...
...will be a terrific colleague and a terrific teacher. He will bring a familiarity with social services in Boston at the ground level,” Bane said...