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...does not rob the book of value. It's perhaps overly dense with fact after fact after fact - the author doesn't zoom out often - but the book still makes a convincing argument that Latin America was a victim of European and American exploitation. This is not a difficult case to make when you're talking about colonialism. But with leftist leaders like Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales assuming power of 21st century Latin American governments, it's important to understand how they think we got here and who they hold responsible. Therefore, Galeano's 1971 book is still...
...things you could get cheaper elsewhere. But, according to Worth, you'd be wrong. The personal-finance magazine is raising its newsstand cover price in May to $20. That is, unless you're on Worth's special list of 110,000 extremely wealthy people, in which case you get the magazine for free. (How does that song go? "The rich get richer and the poor get Kiplinger...
...Overall, Flo's brain shows the global neural reorganization that's a mark of advancing intelligence. What's striking about this relative sophistication is that it developed in such a small brain case. A prime indicator of increasing human intelligence has long been thought to be increasing brain size. However, Falk says, the hobbit's skull is a bit of a mishmash of characteristics in terms of who it resembles. "Its brain sorts with africanus, yet its outside skull features look like Homo erectus," she says...
...that's the case, then why the glut of blended sugars rather than pure glucose in our foods today? Glucose isn't as sweet as fructose, and because our collective sweet teeth have become accustomed to a certain level of sweetness, anything less might be unsatisfying. "The proportion of fructose in food probably hasn't increased that much, since high fructose corn syrup simply replaced sucrose in many cases," says Havel. "But people are also simply consuming more sugar in their diet." In fact, if you think that the study subjects drank way more sweetened beverages (25% of their daily...
...place on a negotiating agenda crowded with issues of global significance, such as Iran's nuclear development program and its support of anti-Israeli militant groups. Meanwhile, the conservative faction in the United States - as voiced on the Wall Street Journal opinion page - has already used the Saberi case as a cautionary tale for what happens when the U.S. tries to engage with Iran...