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...band with until their big break was squashed by Greenberg's refusal to sign a record contract. Then he hears Beth is recently separated. A lightbulb goes on in his head - she might be interested in him again - and he seeks her out, suggests they have a drink sometime. Baumbach wants us to see that from Greenberg's narcissistic perspective, nothing happened at the party except the things that happened...
...light. Already fixtures in many British supermarkets, the labels use red, yellow and green circles to indicate how healthy products are in four categories: fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt. If a box of cookies is high in sugar, for instance, it'll get a red light. Food and drink companies oppose this approach and prefer to maintain the status quo - requiring only the calorie content to be displayed on the package front, with nutritional information listed on the back. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the issue in May or June. (See pictures of what the world...
...Food labels are a big issue in the U.S. at the moment too. Earlier this month, a lobbying group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a report calling for the U.S. government to require food and drink companies to summarize nutritional information with "easy to comprehend" symbols on the package front. First Lady Michelle Obama, who has made reducing childhood obesity one of her key goals, said recently that she'd like to see food companies start using more customer-friendly labels "so parents won't have to spend hours squinting at words that they...
...powerful food and drink lobbies and their allies in the European Parliament aren't quite so sure. Renate Sommer, a parliamentarian from Germany's Christian Democratic Union party, favors limiting front-of-package labeling to calorie content and allowing food companies to decide how much nutritional information to list on the back. "It would be wrong to overload consumers. Otherwise you would need a calculator to work out your diet," she says. "The more you label, the less people read. The U.S. has more and more food labeling, but obesity rates keep rising. We should learn from their mistakes...
Friday Head over to the oasis known as Garden of Dreams, tel: (977-1) 442 5340, for a stroll and predinner drink. Originally established in the 1920s, this landmark was in decay for decades before an Austrian-funded team finished restoring the Edwardian-influenced pavilions and grounds in 2006. Enjoy your aperitif at the on-site Kaiser Bar, before heading across the street for dinner at the historic 1905, tel: (977-1) 422 5272 - a venerable restaurant that has seen many a state function in its day (Queen Elizabeth II herself has dined there). If you've booked rooms...