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...Thus begins a kind of custody battle between the two women, each offering part of what Fred needs. Dede is heart, Jane is mind; Dede is sense, Jane sensibility. Neither is a whole number: Dede spits out cherry pits faster than she does ideas, and Jane bakes a meat loaf that looks like a moon rock. The movie asks, How many mothers can divide a boy's loyalty? And the answer is, Both of them. But is there an answer? A child can't choose who cares...
...conclude that mistakes were made, or do we think they gave us half a loaf? That's our problem," one federal investigator for the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations told the Boston Globe this summer...
...conclude that mistakes were made, or do we think they gave us half a loaf? That's our problem," one federal investigator for the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations told the Boston Globe this summer...
...action in this realm of superslim slivers and oversize wedges. A manufacturer wishing to boost the nutrient value of a cereal, for example, simply bases the label on an oversize portion. If low calories are the object, the portion becomes minuscule. Take, for example, Entenmann's fat-free Chocolate Loaf Cake, which boasts a scant 70 calories per 1-oz. serving. No one with a sweet tooth would ever cut the cake this small, argues Dr. Brian Levy, who treats diabetics at New York University Medical Center. "It is physically almost impossible and emotionally unsatisfying to eat just...
...conga drums stopped rumbling at about 4:20 a.m. on July 4, with five or six hard hand cracks, then a great, cavernous quiet. A visitor, sweaty in a winter sleeping bag, half-woke in his tent, wadded what turned out to be a loaf of six-grain bread under his head as a pillow and eased back to sleep. As he did, the drums started again, more softly: chunka-chunka-CHUNKA-chunka. They stopped for good an hour later, just before full light...