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...Molodezhny milk store in the Frunze District of northwest Moscow used to be famous for its dairy products. Nowadays, almost no customers are seen there during peak afternoon shopping hours. No wonder. Refrigerator cases offer bottles of a sour apple-grape drink instead of butter and cheese. In a touch of the absurd, otherwise barren shelves display seltzer-water dispensers and brightly colored plastic Little Drummer Rabbit dolls, presumably for toddlers who will have to do without fresh milk...
...market a biodegradable, in fact edible, alternative: popcorn. The drawbacks are that it is more expensive to produce than polystyrene pellets and tends to ) attract rodents and insects. Nonetheless, a handful of mail-order companies and other shippers in the U.S., Canada and Europe have begun packing with popcorn (butter and salt not included). Such small innovations, along with dramatic shifts by companies like McDonald's, may someday eliminate a major insult to the environment...
...health is being revamped. A sense of "connectedness" to others is now being viewed as a healthy trait rather than a symptom of "dependent personality disorder." In politics women candidates are finding that issues they emphasize may carry more weight than ever with voters tired of the guns-not-butter budgets of the 1980s...
Among other things, the bill should stop a plethora of misleading disease- prevention claims on foods ranging from oat-bran doughnuts and cereals to cholesterol-free peanut butter and "lite" desserts. "For too long consumers who want a healthier diet have been besieged by inaccurate nutrition claims," said Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, the bill's chief sponsor in the Senate. Now, he added, "a bold health claim on the front of the package won't be contradicted by the fine print on the back...
...should they keep American children in their preferred brand of peanut butter when Belgium has a perfectly fine one? Why should they pay to install television antennae so that the soldiers do not miss Monday Night Football every week...