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...subtitle of your book is "A Guide to Conscious Eating." What is "conscious eating"? What I'm advocating is that people eat fewer animal products, less junk food and less super-refined carbohydrates. And in their stead, they eat plants. That's the simplest, most basic...
...what you say sounds like [Omnivore's Dilemma author] Michael Pollan's edict - eat food, not too much, mostly plants. It's a very basic idea. Yeah, and don't eat things your grandmother wouldn't recognize and don't eat things that have more than five ingredients. There's very little Michael says that I disagree with. Not to take anything away from him, but he doesn't do recipes...
...Want My 401(k)! I read Justin Fox's article with horror [Dec. 15]. The basic premise: a government-run pension is more secure than my 401(k). Curiously, I saw no mention of a current government program called Social Security - one the government has handled so expertly I probably will never get to collect from it. Now those same people think they can do better with retirement funds? It is easy to make decisions when the rules don't apply to you. No members of government will have to worry about their pension or medical care. The market works...
...sure of her control over men that it's often a chore just to rouse herself for another conquest. As she fairly said, "I am the original Material Girl." That this smooth dominatrix was an African-American, at a time when U.S. blacks were still denied basic civil rights, made her woman-on-top status all the more notable, not to say delicious...
...Then there is the problem of rampant corruption, which has allowed top officials to earn fortunes. Transparency International's latest corruption index places Guinea 173 out of 180 countries. Guineans have to bribe officials in order to receive water, electricity, and basic health care, the group said. With policing and the court system in a shambles, Guinea has also become a major hub for Latin American cocaine traffickers, who increasingly use West Africa as the conduit to the lucrative cocaine market in nearby Europe. When TIME visited neighboring Guinea Bissau in 2007, several Colombian cocaine traffickers were operating there...