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...more people were hungry than in 2006. At the same time, unhealthy, heavily processed, American-style fast food has spread beyond our borders, eroding traditional ways of eating. The solution, say Slow Food devotees, is to shift to cuisine that is "good, clean and fair," grown mostly organically by local farmers...
...United States? At the very moment that Alice realizes how the world sees her Prince Charming, Charlie suddenly gets his act together--under her threat of divorce. He is born again as a Christian and becomes the front man for a consortium of businessmen who buy the local baseball team. He is elected governor of Wisconsin. He is elected President...
...been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life--that the fact that Charlie likes grabbing dinner at a local hamburger stand might be more important than his views on Islam. One can easily imagine, or perhaps hope, that Laura Bush might worry about that...
Bush has no hope but to heal himself. As the price of oil floated downward, as Iraq's Anbar province, formerly a charnel house, returned to local control, as another September arrived with no cities flooded or towers destroyed, his vital signs improved slightly. Too little and too late for this political cycle, but beyond that lie the low hills of Texas, out of the storms, and a quiet wait for history's verdict...
...having American soldiers in a position to call in strikes is no guarantee that civilians won't be killed. That was made clear in a Sept. 3 cross-border raid into Pakistan, apparently by Afghan-based U.S. forces, that left as many as 15 dead, including women and children, local officials said. (See photos of the vulnerable Pakistan-Afghanistan border area here...