Word: junked
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...high when the world is facing what might be catastrophic consequences. Even the possibility that human behavior is changing our climate should compel action. American attitudes toward environmental pollution are like our attitudes toward food: we keep shoving pollutants into the atmosphere with the same abandon that we shove junk food into our mouths, even though we know the results will probably be serious. Why are we not proactive when it comes to the planet? Our negligence could have a fatal impact not only on ourselves but also on billions of innocents. Matthew Hutchison West Hollywood, California...
Imagine a kitchen where chefs struggle to break eggs and gobble the ingredients when no one's looking. It may sound like a disaster, but it's a recipe for success in teaching kids about nutritious eating. Much has been made of child obesity and junk food consumption, but less has been done to teach kids (and in some cases their parents) how to step away from the potato chips in favor of homemade, healthy meals. Luckily, more youngsters across Europe are learning by playing with their food...
Imagine a kitchen where chefs struggle to break eggs and gobble the ingredients when no one's looking. It may sound like a disaster, but it's a recipe for success in teaching kids about nutritious eating. Much has been made of child obesity and junk food consumption, but less has been done to teach kids (and in some cases their parents) how to step away from the potato chips in favor of homemade, healthy meals. Luckily, more youngsters across Europe are learning by playing with their food. Since opening its doors in 2000, north London's Kid's Cookery...
...consumers, we need time to make adjustments--often very expensive ones--to the new technologies. Not everyone can afford to junk a two-year-old SUV to buy a new hybrid. Most people can't afford to abandon houses built in developments 100 miles out in the countryside when oil was cheap. And although energy and power companies are investing in new technologies, they can't create a massive new infrastructure overnight. Coal liquefaction, nuclear power, wind power--"all of these things need an enormous lead time," says Heinberg. The problem with the free market, in short, is that while...
...develop a strange growth, what would it look like?) Every sensitive outcast's nightmare comes true as those infected become as outwardly repulsive and rejectable as they feel inside. Some simply remove themselves entirely from society, preferring to live in the woods under garbage bag tents, eating pilfered junk food...