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...broccoli and a pan-seared asparagus with lemon, and they love it. I also really try to make sure they think that cooking is fun. Kids who grow up feeling shunned in the kitchen end up not liking the kitchen. They start feeling like, 'I'm outta here; guess I'll go play video games...
...workout to your regular aerobic routine can make you slightly fitter. Beyond that, the studies were small and 10 years old. If the four-minute workout truly worked, Nelson says, "everything we know about fitness and metabolism would be wrong. I just don't buy it." Oh, well. I guess I'll just go running. --By Michael D. Lemonick
News professionals around the country were somewhat hesitant last week to second-guess Newsweek's editorial judgments. They don't need to be told that even the most conscientious among them can make an error. But many believe the magazine made a series of questionable judgments that together led it into trouble...
When University of Oxford researchers presented volunteers with a vial of cheddar-cheese odor labeled either CHEDDAR CHEESE or BODY ODOR, guess which one they preferred? Sure enough, subjects found the odor significantly more pleasant when they thought they were smelling cheese. Researchers used imaging technology to try to pinpoint the neurological intersection of good-smell words with good-smell odors. Though the precise mechanism hasn't yet been worked out, it is clear that smell is in both the nose and the brain of the beholder...
Finally, McKinney gives the answer to the case study: There is no answer. Not one single answer, anyhow. It's all just guesses, and McKinney's guess is that you should leverage the strong Iraqi aversion to having a death on one's conscience. Tell the farmer that the soldier lying out there is a human being and that his death would be on the farmer's head. In other words, use your judgment, considering everything you have learned about the place and the culture and human nature...