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...sandwiches with bagels and ingredients from the salad bar, cheese fries and stuffed baked potatoes with cottage cheese." Jenny and her friends were careful to avoid high-fat, calorie-laden fare at the salad bar, but for those who don't exercise restraint, salad-bar fixings can become vegetarian junk food...
...drinks and candy are a blueprint for obesity and heart trouble. Why should teens be expected to purge their bad habits just because they have gone veggie? Still, claims Simon Chaitowitz of the pro-vegetarian and animal-rights group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "Kids are better off being junk-food vegetarians than junk-food meat eaters...
...companies purchased before the high-tech bubble burst. And the financial news just kept getting worse. Despite asset sales and desperate accounting ploys, concerns over the servicing and payment of Vivendi's €30 billion group debt last week led Moody's to rate Vivendi Universal bonds as junk and sent share prices tumbling ever further. Inexplicably, Messier fell silent when panicked investors needed to hear from him most. Ultimately, Messier was undone by the very French old guard he considered obsolete. The nation's business establishment - led by the doyen of French industry, Claude...
...forced resignation Tuesday sent shock waves throughout markets on both sides of the Atlantic. Shares in Vivendi fell as much as 40 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange that day as Le Monde questioned the company's accounting practices and Moody's cut Vivendi's credit rating to junk bond status. In New York, other big media stocks tumbled as well, including AOL Time Warner (corporate overlord of this writer) on renewed fears that the accounting for such large, multidimensional companies had become too hard to follow. By Friday the stocks had made an uneasy recovery - the prices...
Most people blame idle friends and spammers for the junk that clogs their e-mail In boxes. But productivity expert Mark Ellwood says we all contribute to the problem. Ellwood is the author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, a slim volume of practical tips on how to "take responsibility" for excessive e-mailing and "find more time for the things that count." Some of his suggestions--use the phone instead and institute a No E-Mail Day--are blindingly obvious. But Ellwood is also effective at challenging the utility of beloved functions like the autoresponder (it notifies senders...