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...Takes one to Know One" is the title of the opening chapter of Joseph Epstein's engaging taxonomy of snobbery. The self-awareness is laudable but also necessary, for it is impossible to write a book about snobs without being...
...HOBNOBBING WITH THE SNOBS: Kirkus is amused by "Snobbery: The American Version" by Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin; July 9). "Clever, prolific Epstein turns his wit to the pernicious, universal failing previously addressed by such worthies as Edith Wharton, Tom Wolfe, Russell Lynes, and even Father Mencken, among countless others. Dissecting snobbery in all its current manifestations, Epstein (English/Northwestern) examines the ways in which people who pursue lives of invidious comparison may judge you (and surely find you wanting) in matters of employment, education, income, affiliations, intellectual interests, spouse(s), ethnicity, favored comestibles, politics, celebrity, dogs and not least progeny...
Water-supply problems demand immediate attention from the federal government, said Paul R. Epstein, associate director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment...
...Like all nations, water [in the U.S.] is under stress,” Epstein said. “This will be an increasingly big issue. The U.S. is not immune...
Indeed, any program that treats kids successfully has to involve the entire family, says Leonard Epstein, a psychologist at State University of New York at Buffalo and director of one of the most successful pediatric-obesity programs in the country. "You really need to include the parents as part of the treatment," he says, if only because parents of obese children are often overweight or obese themselves. Usually, the entire family could stand to modify its diet and reduce high-fat foods and sweets. Epstein encourages families to build exercise into their daily lives, taking walks together after dinner...