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...cost of food--quality food--is perhaps the best place to start. Calorically speaking, the best bang for the buck tends to be packed with sugar, fat and refined grains (think cookies and candy bars). In general, processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty...
...with oil futures hitting record levels and gas prices averaging nearly $2 per gal. nationwide just as the summer driving season kicks off. If you just spent $75 to fill up your Chevy Suburban, you might even be one of those folks swearing they're gonna dump the hog for more of a fuel sipper...
Situated beneath Kirkland and Eliot, the Culinary Support Group facility is an underground complex of offices, tunnels, prep floors, refrigeration rooms, industrial oven units and cutting counters. If Henry Ford had a child with Betty Crocker, the kid would be in hog heaven here...
...fact that the Bush proposal didn't kill the orbiting cash hog outright may be because it can't be killed. With contractors and subcontractors across 22 states and uncounted electoral constituencies, the station has long been a kind of cunningly planted political kudzu, impossible to pull out stem and root. If domestic commitments didn't lock the station in place, commitments to NASA's 15 international partners certainly do. And while the station thrives, so too must the three living shuttles, since they exist largely to ferry up parts and crews. "The space station is a failed dream...
...traveled by rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning the sale of civets. For Yi this should have been a crowning moment...