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Occasionally, one gets questions about the cereal habit. It's true that the average adult does not eat small pieces of sugar grain in milk three meals a day. (Hence the need for those stupid Tony the Tiger commercials). But, for me at least, safety is a concern that overrides any roommate stares: there is no surer way to avoid Mystery Meat or any permutation thereof...
Scientists need not hide from making public statements on social issues. And lay-persons need not hide from criticizing science or using its findings to develop their own opinions. Frankly, both sorts of statements should be taken with a grain of salt, but they are as valuable as the daily messages we receive from politicians on subjects about which they know nothing...
...though this is the least of the elements) because the puzzle is good: Is the icebreaker really prepared to bring back something that has been living for centuries in the Greenland ice? Partly because, seen by Smilla under stress, the background texture -- the casino, the sinister ship -- has the grain-by-grain fascination of a prison cell's stone wall. And finally because Smilla is good company. She's interesting, full of odd quirks and skewed perspectives: someone you'd enjoy talking with over a long dinner...
...middle class, the true believers in the Nigerian Dream. To survive these days, they are more likely to make deals than make things. Young Amie, a 34-year-old Yoruba who graduated from the University of Lagos with a degree in chemistry, was fired from his job at a grain-milling factory after the government banned imported wheat. Unable to find another post related to his training, he began importing "fairly used cars," as Nigerians call preowned automobiles. "The country would be better off if I were to engage in the production of items people can use, like soap...
...freights make up all but a percent of railroading today, both in dollars and distance. Commodities such as grain, forest products and coal are still the underpinning of the rails, but railways are nibbling more into consumer products such as Nikes and Chevrolets. Rails transport two-thirds of the new cars from factories to dealers and piggyback 6.5 million truck trailers a year...