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...silverware. Platters of food are traditionally lined with the bread, which gets its characteristic spongy quality from a day-long fermentation process. The resulting dough is then steamed without any butter or oil to become a squishy pancake with the tang of San Francisco sourdough and a buckwheat-like flavor from a special grain called “maskal teff,” used instead of wheat flour. I had done a little research before setting out and arrived expecting the finger-food and flatbread, but still I was thrown off by the table-sized basket we were...
...Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and founder of the Smoke-free Movies Action Network (smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu) calls the ads, which appeared in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, "preposterous." No tobacco company, he notes, has asked for a ban in movies rated PG or PG-13 movies, which teenagers favor. Meanwhile, a mandatory R rating for movies that feature smoking has been endorsed by the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association among other groups. And earlier this year, 41 state attorneys general again wrote motion picture studios renewing their call...
...Frank] in spring of 2005 and just called him up because I was recommended to talk to him by a bookseller in San Francisco,” Hammel says. “Bookstores have definitely taken the lead across the country on this issue,” he says. “By definition, bookstore owners are more thoughtful and more aware of sort of what shapes our society and our economy...
They may soon find out. The San Francisco Chronicle recently had 16 toys tested in a private lab. One rubber ducky contained the phthalate DEHP at 13 times San Francisco's allowed level. A teether contained another phthalate at five times the limit. Meanwhile, a rattle, two waterproof books and a doll contained BPA, which is prohibited by the city at any level. Although the products comply with U.S. law, some toymakers, including Goldberger Doll, are cutting out phthalates. Richard Woo, owner of a local store called Citikids, estimates that he might have to pull a third of his items...