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...awkward category. We met them in some situation that we would either like to forget or believe that all normal people have already forgotten, and we therefore aren't allowed to talk to them. And after avoiding eye contact with them for a year or more, unwritten rules forbid us from ever smiling at them again--and we would never in a million years think of asking them their names or reminding them of ours...
Sears' approach goes against the grain in more ways than one. His books contradict the prevailing orthodoxy of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. He contends that an excess of carbs forces the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...
...MOINES: The Iowa septuplets look set to make history as the first surviving seven-baby birth ? and heaven forbid one of them should fail. The nation, indeed the world has become so involved in the progress of this plucky litter of prematures since their birth Wednesday that the loss of one of their number would feel like a grief on the scale of Diana. Not to fear, however ? neonatologist Dr. Robert Shaw pronounced Bobbi McCaughey's brood "warm, pink and comfortable...
China suppresses individual human rights. So do a lot of other countries; for example, certain Islamic nations that forbid women from participating in society. In fact, the Tiananmen massacre was in the same vein as the United States' use of military force to violently suppress student uprisings during the Vietnam era. And prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial...
...American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who immigrated there during the 18th century. The community has paid a price for its separateness: because the Amish forbid marriage outside the Old Order, centuries of inbreeding have afflicted them with certain genetic diseases that strike their young in alarming numbers...