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...More than a catalog of meals, Pork & Sons tells the story of a community bound together by its passion for pork. It can be navigated with the help of an index, but unlike most standard cookbooks, it can also be appreciated as a narrative by reading front-to-back, letting the flavors and insights unfold over the course of 13 chapters. The pages are peppered with dozens of photographs of the region and its people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author...
...HDAG. After Harvard announced its divestment from PetroChina and Sinopec, The Crimson reported in January that the University still had indirect holdings not only in PetroChina and Sinopec, but also in Petronas, a Malaysian oil company with operations in Sudan. These holdings are maintained through investments in various index funds managed by the British bank Barclays, and, according to Harvard’s latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the University still indirectly held $13.4 million in the three companies at the end of 2006. University spokesman John D. Longbrake said last month, before the students began collecting...
...leaned together on one side of the investment boat. When the boat became totally imbalanced it was enough for only a small wave-initially, the mere rumor of regulatory changes designed to cool China's stock fever-to sink the ship. On Feb. 27, China's main stock index fell 8.8%. Because of the huge leverage and increased computer trading that characterize modern finance, this sell-off triggered sharp declines in other markets from Russia to Malaysia, Japan...
...keep track of how the candidates are doing, TIME has created the monthly Election Index, which plots the amount of support each contender enjoys against how much voters know about that person. In this second edition, the candidates are becoming better known but not always better liked...
...Association’s Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in Orlando, Fla. The study was based on questionnaires completed by 1,200 mothers about the television patterns of their three-year-old children. The researchers controlled their data for certain socioeconomic factors and the body mass index of the parents. Miller cited the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which suggests that children over the age of two watch a maximum of two hours of TV daily. “We hope that our results will give people some understanding as to why limiting television time...