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...influence on the public mind far beyond their numbers (250,000 out of a 17.5 million population). Examples of a burgeoning Aboriginal presence in Australian literature and music include Sally Morgan's 1987 autobiography, My Place, which chronicled a woman's discovery of her black identity; the 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi, an Aborigine who also claims Japanese, Chinese and Scottish strains of descent; and the rock band Yothu Yindi. There may be a parallel between the Aboriginal Renaissance and a recent surge in white Australian self-discovery. For the first time, archives across the country...
Better medical treatment and health education for African Americans could reduce the black-white mortality gap by an estimated 60%. "We have a whole segment of our population dying unnecessarily, and we're worried about whether to eat oat-bran or wheat-bran muffins," fumes Dr. David Ansell, director of ambulatory screening at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. "It's the medical equivalent of Marie Antoinette's saying 'Let them eat cake...
...permanent evacuation. Perhaps, they say, dioxin was not such a serious threat after all. This kind of waffling only reinforces public skepticism about the credibility of scientists, who seem to change their mind with bewildering regularity whether the subject is the danger of dioxin or the benefits of oat bran...
...with your cereal! But if you're poor, you can't get them in the same box. The $2.4 billion federal ( program that feeds 5 million needy children will not pay for cereal with more than six grams of sugar per serving. Kellogg protests that this excludes its Raisin Bran, because the sugar naturally contained in its raisins pushes it over the limit. So the kids eat mainly Cheerios and have to get their fruit separately...
Latest Immortality Elixir Not so long ago, the secret ingredient to lower cholesterol was oat bran, which proved to be no more or less magical than low- fiber grains. In 1990 health nuts got hooked on canola oil, which is made from rapeseed. Enough! cried Julia Child. "If fear of food continues, it will be the death of gastronomy in the United States...