Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowledge that two slices of Pepperidge Farm white bread contain more sodium than a 1-oz. bag of Lay's potato chips is a mainstream American fact of life. Label reading is not the passion of a literary or political elite...
...careful research and reflection. Sowell does a credible job purveying what usually passes for the stereotypes of certain ethnic groups as specific interpretations of their cultural inheritance. The Irish passion for alcohol may have arisen from the futility of life in a land where whiskey proved cheaper than bread, as Jewish resourcefulness and guile may have from centuries of oppression across the diaspora. Yet, drawing these traits in light of their cultural origins is hardly original to Sowell's treatise. His digging can only add little insight to legends that have been around for centuries...
RUSSELL HOBAN'S most celebrated creation is a badger named Frances. Few American children make it through kindergarten without reading Bread and Jam for Frances, Bedtime for Frances, or Hoban's four other stories about literature's most appealing marsupial...
...Riddley Walker is no children's story. From bread and jam and bedtime, Hoban has gone to create a remarkable novel about the most terrifying issue of the grownup world: the abuse of power...
...seeds of the first revolution-high-yield, fertilizer-hungry super-grains-were sown all over the world in the 1960s. Bread-bare countries like Mexico and Iran were soon exporting wheat, the Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...