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...give those who are on the fence a rationale to make a racist decision without appearing to be racist: "Oh, I didn't vote against Barack because he was black. I voted against him because he was associated with this racist." That way, they can have their cake and eat it, too: "I wanted to vote for the white guy, [but] I didn't vote for him because he was white; I voted for the white guy because the black guy was associated with a racist." So they resolve it in their own minds...
...month, says there is "still a running gun battle with al-Qaeda in Iraq" in the northern part of the country around Mosul. U.S. troops there are "still in the 'clear' phase of 'clear, hold, build' counterinsurgency strategy," said Nagl, a West Point graduate and author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam who recently helped Petraeus rewrite the Army/Marine Corps' Counterinsurgency Field Manual. "There's still a fight going on up north, and we're going to have a fight there for awhile...
...Zimbabwe's hunger is by no means restricted to the countryside. As an unemployed property owner in Harare put it: "I can't afford to feed my family anymore, so I have told my children to lay their hands on anything, including illegal activities. We only eat once or twice a day. Most of the time we turn the screws on our tenants." (See photos of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger here...
...Prevention Research Center, the current study, which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, highlights a critical new understanding in the relationship between genes and our lifestyle. It's long been known that we can compensate for our genetic makeup by our lifestyle choices - by watching what we eat and how much we exercise, for example - but as this study shows, it's now becoming clear that our lifestyle patterns may actually alter our genes and the way they are expressed as well. "We can nurture nature," he says, "and the idea that you can alter genetics through lifestyle...
...course, most Slow Foodies aren't arguing that we should eat only organic arugula. In its broadest sense, the movement is trying to get people to stop and really think about what's on their plate and how it got there. In the end, Slow Food is more interested in producing better-tasting food than leading a jihad against chemical fertilizers, and there's something to be said for appealing to the stomach to get to the head...