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...While there, I got to know the great historian David McCullough, who has been on a one-man campaign to end the epidemic of what he calls historical illiteracy. I believe that our Making of America series is an antidote to historical illiteracy, which David describes as a great danger to our democracy. Being an American is not based on a common ancestry, a common religion, even a common culture--it's based on accepting an uncommon set of ideas. And if we don't understand those ideas, we don't value them; and if we don't value them...
...TIME.com: Is there a danger that this just leads to blockage and nothing gets done? What are the election-year risks...
...like Eton exist mainly to preserve the privileges of those who already monopolize too many, and you understand why many in the postwar Labour Party wanted to abolish them. In the 1960s, Eton took that threat seriously enough to start contemplating a move to Ireland. Under New Labour, the danger of extinction has vanished. Blair's government has limited itself to a bill that will require private schools to publish the social benefits they generate to justify their charitable tax-exemption status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school heap, plenty...
Other experts speculate that the whole American diet may be calibrated to an artificially high level of sweetness, and that we may be in danger of generalizing our propensity for sweets--artificial or otherwise--to everything we eat. "Why do we have so much sugar in things like peanut butter?" Brownell asks. "Why do they put sugar in soups...
Researchers realized decades ago that high blood pressure is a cardiovascular danger signal. They don't understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...