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...have become increasingly jumpy about bad food--and with good reason. Since the outbreak of mad-cow disease in 1996, the appearance of dioxin-contaminated Belgian chickens last spring and the later recall of contaminated cans of Coca-Cola in France and the Benelux nations, health officials have grown fussier about what their citizens consume--raising the doubts about GM food even higher...
...Fort $115; dollsandreams.; ages 3 and up This smart, sturdy and uncreatively named fort will be the centerpiece of many games. Attack it, defend it, play king and queen, open the drawbridge and slide up the gate. Its simplicity is an invitation to more imaginative play than fussier--and more fragile--castles...
This is the author's longest, most ambitious book, but like her others it is meandering, reflective and unromantic -low on plot, long on thoughtfulness. There is, however, one new disconcerting element. The prose is notably fussier than usual. If there were a Comma Prize, Margaret Drabble would win in a walk. ∙Martha Duffy
...pure research and for a thoroughly academic faculty was largely Harvard's. Says Stephen Thernstrom, the sole Brandeis member, "There was pressure from Harvard for 'first-class' people, not, say, consultants to the mayor. MIT is more promiscuous. MIT would have liked more autonomy; Harvard, as usual, was much fussier about appointments...
Considering the expense involved, truck buyers are a lot fussier about what they buy than car buyers, and they get results faster. Ford and Chevy offer 1,000 different variations, and almost every truck turns out to be custom-made. G.M.C. dutifully mixed batches of lavender paint until a florist customer was satisfied, and has bowed to truck owners' new efforts to keep drivers comfortable by putting in reading lamps over adjustable bunks in sleeper cabs. White's Autocar division recently put in a seat with 16 different adjustments that give the driver a choice...