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...recent salmonella outbreak at the Peanut Corporation of America has led to the recall of more than 1,800 peanut-containing products, from off-brand dog biscuits to Trader Joe's vegan pad Thai, and sent sales of peanut butter plunging 25%, despite assurances that jars on supermarket shelves are not tainted. But the panic illustrates just how thoroughly the legume (Arachis hypogaea is, technically, not a nut), fashioned into a paste, has permeated the American diet. Spread on crackers, slathered on celery, melted with chocolate: peanut butter goes with almost anything...
...certain market watchers think we might see prices drop an additional 10% to 15% nationally before this thing is over--then spending billions to spur on buyers won't be a magical fix. "To prop up prices above fundamentally justified levels is throwing good money after bad," says Joe Gyourko, professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Overboosting homeownership helped get us into this mess, after...
...enjoyed reading Joe Klein's article about the new style, tone and attitude of cooperation that the Obama Administration brings. I only wish that Klein had adopted this new attitude. Instead, the snarky remarks aimed at George W. Bush and conservatives make him come across as a sore winner, very unlike our new President. Brian Hendricks, Springfield...
...Throughout his long career on the team, playing alongside Harvard basketball greats such as leading-scorers Bob D. Ferry ’85 and Joe D. Carribino ’85, Duncan remained focused on the social issues that he witnessed growing up in Chicago. In 1986 he took a year off to return to his hometown to write his sociology thesis, eventually titled “The values, aspirations, and opportunities of the urban underclass...
...President is now discovering that Joe Biden is the reason that Amtrak created the quiet car. Huge laugh. 8:16 PM Jan 31st from TinyTwitter Then she wrote...