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...Honey, I'm Home represents a new trend in the TV industry: cooperation between those instinctive rivals, the broadcast networks and cable. The half- hour sitcom is being produced for ABC by Nickelodeon, the children's cable network (which will rerun the episodes on its Nick at Nite channel). The gimmick: a wholesome 1950s TV family materializes in 1991 New Jersey, where they find that their sweetness-and-light television fantasy life (which they can revert to by switching themselves into black and white) clashes with the real world of muggers, homeless people and feminist single mothers...
...Honey Nut Cheerios provides less honey than sugar and more salt than nuts...
Under Kessler's direction, the FDA is modifying the order in which ingredients are listed on a label. Traditionally, components have been listed in descending order by weight. That enables manufacturers to play games with sweeteners, listing each type (corn syrup, sugar, honey, and so on) separately so they will appear in the lower part of the list. Kessler wants the sweeteners to be grouped together to enable a shopper to tell at a glance just how sweet those granola bars really...
...Surely there is more to it than being called "honey." Are there any other examples...
...operating room, I have to be in control of the team that is working with me. That control is established because people respect who I am and what I can do. If a man walks into the operating room and says, "How's it going, honey?", what happens to my control? It disappears because every woman who is working in that room with me has also been called "honey" by this same guy, and it means all of a sudden I don't have the status of a surgeon in control of the case being done. I have suddenly become...