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When you buy a car with a six-cylinder engine, you expect to get six cylinders. When you buy a dress in a size 10, you expect a size 10. And when you buy a burger at a fast-food joint that's listed on the menu as containing 500 calories, you jolly well expect 500. But you may be getting a lot more than that. The same may be true of the omelet and the pasta you get at a sit-down restaurant - and of the frozen dinner with the label you read so carefully before you tossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieters Beware: Calorie Counts Are Frequently Off | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...case you haven’t heard, Harvard’s Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors have cooked up another sweet deal at b.good for tonight: Harvard ID holders can treat themselves to FREE Mango Shakes from Midnight to 1 A.M. tonight at the burger joint, followed by FREE SLIDERS from...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FREE FOOD ALERT: DAPA to Ease Woes of Calendar Reform | 12/5/2009 | See Source »

...Spokespeople for McDonald's, Burger King and Kellogg's all declined to offer an opinion on the proposed legislation, saying it was still subject to modification and congressional approval. A vote has not yet been scheduled on the bill. But when a similar toy ban was proposed by the municipal government of Liverpool, England, McDonald's officials argued that the plan was unworkable because it was too broad and said that it took "the fun out of eating." That ban has yet to be enacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spain, Taking Some Joy out of the Happy Meal | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...kill your wife,' " he says. Like many service members, he feared that any confession of mental trauma would delay his homecoming. However mixed up Hollibaugh felt after being the sole survivor of an ambush, he believed that it was nothing that could not be fixed by a burger, a few beers and sex. "Besides," he says, "I thought I was fine." But several weeks later, Hollibaugh woke up outside his house; he had been patrolling the yard while sleepwalking. He kept a gun in every room of his house, one of them under the mattress. When his neighbor started firing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Army Town Copes with Posttraumatic Stress | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Former Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger called the American court-martial system "the most enlightened military code in history" - but few would call it perfect. In an unusual public ceremony in Seattle last year, the Army apologized for the wrongful convictions of 28 African-American soldiers of the 43 tried in the largest and longest court-martial of World War II. Most of the men were convicted of rioting amid a 1944 melee at Fort Lawton in which an Italian prisoner of war was lynched; two were convicted of manslaughter. A 2005 book detailing misconduct by prosecutors prompted an Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court-Martial | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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