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...USDA’s chief ill is its confused mandate: both to promote American agriculture and to regulate it. The agency has done the promotion job only too well: The average American now consumes around 40 pounds of high fructose corn syrup and 227 pounds of meat, fish, and poultry annually—three times the global average...
...felt good to pull off the win against Stanford, and we held our own against Minnesota.”In addition to three grueling team bouts in one day, Harvard faced individual challenges last week, sending four wrestlers to the Midland Championships Dec. 28 and 29 in Evanston, Ill. Even with a daunting schedule, Caputo appreciated so many opportunities to compete.“I felt good,” he said. “It’s been a long week with [Midlands], and we were happy to end on a good note.”With...
...Unless voters learn to identify rulers beyond a family crest or party symbol, the region's leadership crisis will only feed the historical assumption that Asians are somehow ill-equipped to handle democracy. John Stuart Mill, whose writings helped gird modern democratic principles, dismissed the Indians living under British rule as "barbarian," perhaps better suited to despotic rule. The colonial assumption was that Asians were somehow not civilized enough to handle democracy...
There are a lot of things that make the life of a con artist a dubious career track - not the least being the risk that you'll get caught. No matter how grand your ill-gotten Bentley or your cooked-books villa, they have to be hard to enjoy when you know that at any moment the jig could be up. The hope - and the thrill - is in the fact that that's only one possibility. The other is that the scam is so good you'll never be nabbed...
...Barack Obama's Jan. 20 Inauguration nears. Obama, who has said he's willing to talk with Raúl Castro, is poised to end the Bush Administration's restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba. That could (and should) be the first step toward dismantling the ill-conceived, 46-year-old embargo (which Obama surely knows is also the aim of many pro-business Republicans in Washington). Either way, such gestures make it harder for the Castros to rail against gringo imperialism. For his part, Raúl Castro recently told actor Sean Penn in an interview...