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Foods that contain healthier fat, such as poultry and fish, are much better for people than red meat and high-fat products. Whole grains and brown rice are excellent substitutes for white bread and potatoes, he said...
...puritanical, homogenous white-bread community of Deseret--as Mormons used to designate their geographical base--is going multigrain, with people of different races, faiths and outlooks moving into the state. Governor Mike Leavitt says that when he came to office nine years ago, 8% of the state's population was from an ethnic minority. Today it is 14%, and when his term is up three years from now it will be 17%. The 2000 Census showed a 138% increase in the Hispanic population over the preceding decade, and a 740% increase in people now prepared to declare they live...
...already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs to have the same amount of turkey, and placed it evenly on the roll. Then came the cheese, four perfect triangles, that were, when laid out next to each other, miraculously, the exact same length as the bread. Tip-to-tip, end-to-end. Next, four tomatoes, one per slice of cheese, and then the lettuce, a fistful (her fistful), before an airy, noisy squirt of mayonnaise that lasted about two and a half seconds. She brought my perfectly engineered sandwich to the register and began...
...cannot say the same for a Subway sandwich, of course, which is supposed to be the same regardless of who makes it. That’s the whole point. Precise preordained amounts of bread, turkey, cheese, tomatoes and mayonnaise. It does not matter who makes the sandwich, it always turns out the same and while one earning seven dollars an hours makes some semblance of a living, she in essence makes nothing else. There is no self-expression, self-creation or individuality—just a paycheck, just a job, the suffocation of self...
...rough. She fled when she was released from the hospital. "I went to the temple," she says, pointing to the golden stupas on a hill high above the eastern outskirts of Mae Sai. "Mama San paid the police to come and arrest me. They held me there with only bread and water for three days. After that I was too afraid to run away. Mama San knows people everywhere, on both sides of the border. She could arrange for me to be taken back to her anytime. Tip knew this: she told...