Word: lites
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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...
...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...
...Mauritius is good Africa, Angola is not. An élite cadre of government figures, Angolan bosses and foreign oil companies holds on to the soar-away gains of its 35% growth while the country stagnates in destitution and inflation. Partly that's due to the lack of a diversified economy to harness the oil wealth. As a foreign diplomat puts it, "If you're dying of thirst, you can't drink from a fire hose. The water comes out too fast." But it's also due to corruption: a 2004 Human Rights Watch report claimed that $4.22 billion...