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Since its inception in 1707, Fortnum & Mason has become the premier department store of the British élite. A browse through its six-floor building on Piccadilly in London's West End shows why: there you can buy rose-petal jelly, a black leather Scrabble set or a $40,000 Christmas hamper containing a tin of beluga caviar and hand-engraved stationery - delivered by horse and carriage...
...course, is in the eye of the beholder - as is the very meaning of culture. The term originally referred to the growing of things, as in agriculture. Eventually it came to embrace the cultivation of art, music, poetry and other "high-culture" pursuits of a high-minded élite. In modern times, anthropologists and sociologists have broadened the term to embrace the "low-culture" enthusiasms of the masses, as well as caste systems, burial customs and other behavior...
...minorities--two groups often segregated by race and class--had a common interest, and it could help extend the coalition against climate change beyond hard-core greenies. "Polar bears, Priuses and Ph.D.s aren't going to do it alone," says Jones, 39. "Everything our friends in the eco-élite do will vanish unless we find a way to expand green jobs to the rest of the economy...
This isn't quite the same as saying that oil production has peaked and is about to start declining sharply--the view of the true peakists. In "peak lite," as some call it, the big issues are not so much geological as political, technical, financial and even human-resource-related (the world apparently suffers from a dearth of qualified petroleum engineers). These factors all delay the arrival of oil on the market, meaning that production would not so much peak as plateau. But with demand rising sharply, especially from China and India, even a plateau could be precarious...
...Just Counting Calories I really appreciated the article "When Lite Gets Heavy" [Nov. 5]. I worked at a Subway restaurant for a year, and it amazed me how often customers would come in talking about the diet they were on and then order a huge sandwich piled high with pepperoni, salami and "lite" mayonnaise. But focusing on calories alone is not the way to a healthful diet. The 105-calorie egg in the 1,100-cal. salad you diagrammed, for example, provides high-quality protein. Calories are an important factor in one's diet; however, moderation is key. Andrea Johnston...