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...evidently fatty fare as Mexican and Italian food. The group's unsurprising findings (tacos and lasagna can be bad for you) seemed less memorable than their breathless sound bites. (Fettuccine Alfredo, for example, was called "a heart attack on a plate.") "A lot of this stuff makes sense," says economist James Bennett, author of The Food and Drink Police. "But sometimes it seems they're just out to grab headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchdogs Who Bite | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

According to administrative assistant Sylvia Baldwin, the famous economist had a valve replacement and seems to be in good condition. The nonagenarian recently fell, which has prolonged his recovery, but all signs point to a successful surgery...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Galbraith Recovering From Surgery | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...gift, whatever we get," Williamson said of the famed economist's services...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Galbraith Recovering From Surgery | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Galbraith has enjoyed a long career as an economist, writer, academic and public servant. Born in Canada in 1908, he taught economics at Harvard from 1934 to 1939 and from 1949 and to 1975, except for time he devoted to government service...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Galbraith Recovering From Surgery | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...around this time that, as the economist Michael Kremer has noted, Mother Nature happened to conduct an experiment that underscored the value of large social brains. Melting polar ice caps severed Tasmania from Australia and the New World from the Old World. Thereafter, just as you would expect, the larger the landmass and hence the population, the faster subsistence technology progressed. The people of the vast Old World invented farming before the people of the smaller (and, at first, thinly populated) New World. And the Aborigines of yet smaller Australia never farmed. As for tiny Tasmania, modern explorers, on contacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web We Weave | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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