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...need not be a granola and beansprout faddist now to question processed foods. In the '60s, when Adelle Davis (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit) preached against the dangers of good old American "enriched" white flour, she seemed no more than another village crank. To consumers obsessed with the astounding levels of sodium in processed foods, claims Author Brody...
...illegible, and one or two of his propositions in the accompanying essays are just plain ridiculous. It's hard to take Kim seriously when he suggests that "creating a design on your own name can be a powerful experience in defining your own identity." He sounds like a crank when he writes, "There is so much to be learned from playing with letters--why isn't more of this taught in schools?" Most disturbing of all is the statement by Kim's friend Jef Raskin, who wrote the "Backword" to Inversions, that he legally shortened his first name in order...
...worry too much about peace reigning in Harvard Yard. If your proctor is a first-year law student, you may spend the year in relative silence; if not, feel free to crank the stereo. Don't worry, because if you're bothering another Harvard student the chances are very slim that they'll be too shy to complain. These rules exist mainly as pretexts for disciplinary action if someone really--really, really--gets out of hand, or worse, embarasses Harvard. A freshman three years ago was distilling nitroglycerine in large quantities in his bedroom, which would seem to fall under...
...high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks away serenely...
...which is monetized, thereby generating inflation is also a spurious one. First, in light of historical precedent a reduction in tax revenues is by no means certain--in fact, unlikely. Second, even if the tax cuts do increase the deficit, they in no way obligate the Federal Reserve to crank up the printing presses...