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Poison isn’t very appetizing; unfortunately, it pervades much of the American diet. Trans fat, after all, is just a poison that happens to be cheaper to produce and boast a longer shelf life than healthier fats and oils. The New York City Board of Health in December voted to eliminate the substance from restaurants city-wide by 2008. The unprecedented ban should serve as an example for a similar Cambridge initiative...
...Over the past four years I've graphed searches for "diets," and, not surprisingly, the yearly pinnacle occurs during the first week of January. What is surprising is just how fleeting an interest Internet users have in losing weight. By the second week of the year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for swimwear season. The collapse then resumes until diet interest reaches an all time low on Thanksgiving Day. Diet searches remain in the trough in the weeks between Thanksgiving...
...Even more revealing than when we search for diets are the kinds of diet solutions we search for. During the first weeks of the year, diet searches outnumber their closest self-improvement counterpart, "exercise," by 250%. And the list of most popular dieting queries are riddled with quick fixes such as "diet pills" and "the sacred heart diet," an urban-legend diet promising a 10-pound weight loss in seven days. This year even saw the shortest diet query in search engine history, the "three-hour diet." A look at the top ten searches containing the term "diet...
Nakasone's plan enjoys a good chance of passage. Reason: his Liberal Democratic Party controls 307 out of 512 seats in the Diet's lower house and 144 out of 252 in the upper chamber. Still, strong opposition has already surfaced, especially to the imposition of new taxes. In last July's general election, Nakasone promised that he had "no idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more...
...behind at least one lasting legacy: a comprehensive reform of Japan's tax system. Last week his goal seemed within reach as Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party approved a plan to overhaul the tax code from top to bottom. The party will submit the proposal to Japan's Diet early next year. Much like this year's revamping of the U.S. tax code, the new program aims at dramatic cuts in income taxes to make the system both more just and less complex. It would represent the first real reform of the Japanese tax code in 36 years...