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...problem for all Westerners - especially children, who are increasingly at risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Candy and other sweets marketed to kids are double health risks. Not only are they packed with calories that tend to get stored as extra kilos, but their high sugar content can also cause blood-glucose levels to spike - a particular concern for diabetics, whose insulin can't even out those peaks efficiently. But the holidays are a minefield we can navigate, doctors and dietitians insist. By enforcing a few simple rules, you and your kids may be able to have your cake...
Written during the Restoration period, when witty and risqué was the fashion, the play was comparable to late-night cable programming in terms of sexual innuendo and scandalous content. Still, slight adjustments to the script overcome any lingering barriers of temporal culture. For example, company veteran Remo Airaldi delivers a new thoughtful and amusing prologue in rhyme. Furthermore the actors forgo the standard drone, which so often hold back productions of older material, in favor of a soothing Virginia drawl—which they generally pull...
Without spoiling the ending, the thematic content complicates the conclusion but, ultimately, makes it much more interesting. The picture simultaneously spends our emotional fuel taking us on the roller coaster ride of love’s up and down’s, its joy’s and losses, its laughter and tears. By the conclusion, you may be too emotionally drained to feel anything, bringing his story surprisingly close to the conventions of true tragedy...
...Whether it was the world bank or the treasury he always talked about the big objectives,” Anita Summers said. “The smaller things took on more meaning and content because they are tied to a bigger thing...
...here," she scolded. Baffled by her response but determined to have a good time, the Carbens went off for the visit, shopping at a Wal-Mart for clothes that John would need for Montana's rough winter, dining at a Subway and driving through a bison preserve, content to be together even though they saw no bison. But when they returned to the school, they learned that the chewing gum, which his father had given him, would cost John two progress levels and hundreds of hard-won points. It would take at least two months for him to make...