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...business, federal food watchdogs went off-duty. Since this was also an era of national obsession with health, the hottest-growing segments of the food market were "the light and leans, low fats, the healthy choice," says Grocery Manufacturers of America vice president Jeffrey Nedelman. In that atmosphere of lax regulation and lite mentality, health claims proliferated like sprouts on a salad...
...because the inspectors have been lax. They employ an impressive array of mechanisms to make sure that materials used to generate nuclear power or for other peaceful purposes are not diverted to bomb development. In 21 years, the inspectors, who lately have run more than 2,000 inspections a year, have never found even a single case of material diverted from peaceful...
...studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
WOODY ALLEN by Eric Lax (Knopf; $24). Seldom is heard an embarrassing word, but this biography gets its facts straight and -- in something of a literary coup -- reaps the benefits of its subject's cooperation. Now if Woody Allen would only consent to tell this story...
...Lax gets all the anguish and accomplishments down, in semismooth prose. Yet the suspicion nags that his highest priority was not to embarrass his subject. Perhaps Woody Allen has lived an exemplary life, but nobility doesn't make the pages burn, or even turn. One can't help wishing that, Latvian prince or not, Allen had written his own life. It would have been as different from this reverent read as stand-up is from doze...