Word: danishes
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...politically incorrect, and also inaccurate, to use the loaded phrase "clash of civilizations" to describe big stuff like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the burgeoning international conflict over a series of cartoons in a provincial Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad seems to fit the term with depressing accuracy. It's a case of the hard-fought right to free expression banging up against Muslims' conviction that states ought to punish anyone who insults the Prophet. And so far, all the protagonists appear ready to ride their principles to Armageddon...
...WHAT YOU EAT--AND DRINK Danish scientists staked out grocery stores and found that people who buy wine instead of beer also buy healthier foods. Wine buyers purchased more olives, fruits, vegetables, poultry, low-fat milk and lean meat. Beer buyers rang up more cold cuts, chips, sausages, butter and sodas...
...DANISH, NO COFFEE A survey of 88,482 Danish women, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that pregnant women who drank eight or more cups of coffee a day had a risk of stillbirth and miscarriage 59% higher than those who drank none...
...stand by a shimmering lake. One is a journalist intent on exposing a government scandal, the other a source nervously feeding him a scoop. It's a remarkable scene from the Danish political thriller King's Game - not for what happens, but for how it looks. The lake is such a cool, vivid blue, you feel you could reach out and dip your hand in it. The image is so sharp, the colors so clear, you can make out the subtle pinstripes on the journalist's suit. By the time it ended its run at the Curzon cinema in London...
...York 71 Television: Texas cheer, Depression gloom 72 Design: Memorializing the Holocaust, sublimely 74 Environment: Better times for owls, but not for whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes, on the field and off 88 People: Michael Jackson's age of innocence is over...