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Healthy Eating In "Eat your greens" you classified milk and cheese as unhealthy foods [March 2]. It is dangerous to demonize dairy, which is absolutely essential for our health. You cannot replace it with vegetables or soya. The French board for nutrition and health advises the consumption of three helpings of dairy products a day, and four for children, adolescents and the elderly. Indeed, dairy contains the calcium, proteins and vitamin D our body needs, especially at certain times of life. It is dangerous to make people believe that they can do without them, for the specious reason that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Foreclosure | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...French teacher once told me you could put him in a closet, and he would still learn something." - Bernanke's father Joseph, on his son's early promise. (Newark Star-Ledger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Agnes Varda, herself a widow, is a French photographer and filmmaker whose work forms part of the canon of French New Wave Cinema. In 2005, Varda directed a documentary on the French island of Noirmoutier, “Quelques Veuves de Noirmoutier,” a series of interviews with widowed women. That same footage, displaced and rearranged, makes up the exhibition at the Sert Gallery. In the gallery context, these encounters become at once personal and jarring, an intimate look at women to whom death has brought not only grief but also a new identity...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exhibition Explores Widowhood, Home | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...hear the interviews, the viewer must sit down in one of the fourteen chairs placed in the middle of the gallery. Each chair comes with a set of headphones and a written English translation of the interview (originally in French). Arranged in a square, the pattern of the chairs mirrors the display of the interviews on the wall so that one faces the widow head on. It is as if Varda has invited the viewer to the widows’ table, into the secret realities of their daily lives. Varda never appears on the screen when questioning...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exhibition Explores Widowhood, Home | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...foreign companies also figured prominently on the list. In fact, they got nearly $60 billion at a time when U.S. firms, notably General Motors, are having to beg for federal dollars just to stay solvent. The biggest winners were French banks, including Société Général, which together scored $19 billion, and German banks, including Deutsche Bank, which got a combined $17 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Challenge: Containing the AIG Bonus Outrage | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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