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Except for mother's milk, no drink boasts a more wholesome reputation for youngsters than fruit juice. Full of vitamin C, it contains no fat, and kids ) just lap it up. In fact, by age five, the average American child guzzles 9 gal. a year of the sweet-tasting stuff, most of it apple juice. But new evidence indicates that for babies less than 24 months old, consuming large quantities can actually prove harmful. The liquid fills their tiny stomachs and ruins their appetite for foods that contain nutrients and calories they need. According to a study published...
Mussburger's plan is to let dopey Norville, an all too recent graduate of Muncie College of Business Administration, run the company into the ground so that he and his colleagues can pick up shares in a basically sound company on the cheap. The tough newspaper gal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who's supposed to expose the fraud and falls for Norville is distinctly Capraesque too. There's even angelic intervention and a touch of time warping, devices Capra employed in It's a Wonderful Life...
...been retrofitted. Similar observations are being made by many regarding the numerous major highways crippled by the quake. After the area's last big temblor, in 1971, L.A. swore it would strengthen its freeway bridges. But costs slowed the project, and the legislature voted down a 2 cents-per-gal. gas tax that might have goosed it along. Infuriatingly, I-10, the most important and hardest hit of the freeways, had been scheduled for retrofitting next month...
...solipsism, a kind of holistic selfishness; other people don't matter unless they are players in one's own themed fantasy. It costs $150 a month just to keep a third of an acre green, and so the per capita water usage in Las Vegas is a gluttonous 343 gal. per day, compared with 200 in Los Angeles. The 702 area code has a higher proportion of unlisted numbers than any other. And although the per capita income is the 12th highest in the U.S., the electorate last year voted against building and improving parks. Officials say they need...
Whether she'd describe herself as a 'meat and potatoes kind of gal': Yes, definitely. Though a side salad is very important as well. Nutritional balance, you know...