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Russia (32,285 homicides in 2002) can lay claim to a worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast...
...routines we have built around food are complex, it's because we have been working on them for so long. Well before we were very social creatures, we were decidedly hungry creatures, and we ate anything we could lay our hands on. Insects, worms and up to 20 kinds of game were nothing to a hunter-gatherer. As our tastes became more refined, the number of items on our menus shrank, mostly because we did a better job of intuiting what we needed. Cultures that developed a taste for rice and beans didn't know a lick about combining incomplete...
Some 70 miles up the East Coast in New Haven, Conn., psychologist Kelly Brownell pulls out a full-page advertisement he has torn from the Wall Street Journal and marvels over the message. The ad displays a new snack-food product from Frito-Lay called Munchies Kids Mix, packaged, once again, in that child-friendly chartreuse hue. It reads, "Mom and Dad, you'll feel great about offering it to your kids because Munchies Kids Mix is a good source of 8 essential vitamins and minerals, has 0 grams trans fat and meets nutritional guidelines established by [Texas fitness expert...
WHAT YOU DO The book doesn't lay out a strict plan but offers common-sense advice from "masters" who have lost 20 lbs. or more and kept the weight off for at least three years...
Some fast-food enterprises, including McDonald's, have cut portion sizes in a nod to obesity concerns. Frito-Lay and others have reduced the trans fats that have been linked to heart disease. Coca-Cola is promoting exercise. But no company on the belt-busting end of the food business has taken the fat fight more seriously than Beall's Ruby Tuesday. In his latest assault, Beall in April became the first chain restaurateur to print nutrition facts on the menu plainly, and perhaps painfully, between an item's description and its price. Classic, slow-cooked "hang off the plate...