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Perhaps it's American to take caveat emptor as our creed, to let the junk food we so clearly love flow freely into the marketplace--and if you can't be bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white...
...honest and insightful critiques, while others seem misguided and, in the worst case, appear to be textual vendettas or shill assessments posted by biased reviewers. But as is the case with any information posted with anonymity, veracity and the risk of misinformation are always in question. Caveat emptor rules apply...
...pair were a uniform tan, one has now metamorphosed to a deep orange while the other is the color of milky coffee. When I went back to the Silk Market to complain, the person who sold me the boots was nowhere to be seen. How do you say caveat emptor in Chinese...
...Caveat emptor, Michael. And, incidentally, caveat emptor, moviegoers. Turns out the gizmo Mort provides can fast-forward or rewind or freeze-frame life itself. This permits Michael to see how things will work out for him if he does not mend his workaholic ways, which is, putting it mildly, not very well. Yes, he gets his partnership in the architectural practice that is, when we meet him, stealing from him all the quality time he wants to spend with his wife - the divinely perky Kate Beckinsale - and their adorable offspring. But at what cost - he grows fat, gets divorced, suffers...
...prospects of both operations improved dramatically in March when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a surprising--and controversial--ruling permitting aquaculture facilities to raise and sell beluga meat and eggs. The environmental group Caviar Emptor had long been pushing for an outright ban on trade in the beluga, arguing that the species' Caspian population has fallen 90% and might soon be extinct. "This is a grievous mistake," says Ellen Pikitch, one of Caviar Emptor's founders and director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. "The beluga is the most valuable fish in the world, and when...