Word: idealizations
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...certain amount of insect material in the food we eat. This suggests that most of us consume various bugs unwittingly throughout our lives. Even vegetarians must accept that they've probably eaten bits of insects in their salads. The sheer mass of insects on our planet makes them an ideal source of food. Certain insects are specified as kosher in the Bible. The term ant farm could one day take on a whole new meaning. Barbara Harwood, Auckland...
...opportunity to ponder her favorite issues: bodily functions, bodily fluids and sex. Helen meticulously describes all sorts of sexual practices (involving men, female prostitutes and avocado stones) while expressing contempt for personal hygiene. Her attitude reflects Roche's own stand against the clean, waxed and odorless female beauty ideal propagated by the advertising industry and popular TV shows, such as former swimsuit model Heidi Klum's Germany's Next Top Model. "There are all these ads suggesting that you always have to smell as if you just came out of the shower and that otherwise you can't have...
...plug-in electric vehicles, cars that could run for maybe 40 to 50 miles on a battery charge - far enough to cover most Americans' daily driving - with a gasoline or biofuel-powered extra engine to cover any additional driving. If it can be made economical, that would be an ideal compromise for the Earth and our budgets. And best of all, we could finally stop talking about the price...
...when we had a chance to establish our first national holiday, it was Thanksgiving - a feast that doesn't merely accompany a celebration but in effect is the celebration? Is it any wonder that what might be our most evocative patriotic song is America the Beautiful, in which an ideal like brotherhood doesn't even get mentioned until the second-to-last line, well after rhapsodic references to waves of grain and fruited plains? "We've defined an American version of what it means to succeed," says neuroscientist Randy Seeley, associate director of the Obesity Research Center at the University...
...June 17 This leaden trifle about the Caribbean reunion of a treasure hunter (Matthew McConaughey) and his estranged wife (Kate Hudson) feels like a winter vacation with a couple of beautiful, bickering airheads on the next towel. The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans...