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...America, Eat Fresh! The comparison of the weekly fare of five families around the world is striking [June 25-July 2]. The American family is the only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder...
...Today's fissures in central authority might seem tiny by comparison, but they are significant nonetheless. In the boomtowns of Shanghai and Guangzhou, municipal meetings are often conducted in local dialects, as opposed to the national language, Mandarin. Trade rivalries between provinces have resulted in absurd internal tariffs that foreign manufacturers must pay when transporting their products out of China. And even though Beijing executed the country's former top food and drug regulator for graft last week, the international scandal over tainted Chinese products speaks more to the central government's inability to monitor what's going...
...date, banks have issued only slightly more than 50 million credit cards to a population of 1.3 billion, according to a recent study done by the payment processing company First Data International. Credit card debt remains minimal - 85% of cardholders pay the full balance off each month. By comparison, Americans possess 640 million cards - more than double the population - with the average card-holding household owing an estimated...
...Vietnamese art has been one of the art world's most widely documented phenomena of recent years. But if you're a would-be collector who feels priced out of the market, is there anywhere else to look? Try Indonesia. The archipelago's artists represent extraordinary value in comparison to the record-breaking sums trading hands at Asian art auctions these days. And they're talented too. "Contemporary Indonesian art is now on the map," says Deborah Iskandar, Christie's representative in Indonesia...
...comparison of the weekly fare of five families around the world is striking. The American family is the only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder that American diet books recommend reading food labels...