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Fast food restaurants are his most visible creators and sustainers of America’s dodgeball targets. A serving of McDonald’s French fries, for example, has gone from 200 calories in 1960 to 610 calories today. Critser says that the Del Taco Macho meal weighs in at four pounds. Schools have indulged in opportunities to outsource cafeteria lunches to fast food giants, which in turn fill hungry students with several hundred more calories than a traditional school lunch. Two factors are at work—Americans’ obsessions with largeness and value. Even in a society...
...Gotta Have Friends Charles Krauthammer indulged in some macho breast thumping about the U.S. standing tall and alone [Jan. 12]. That would be great if we Americans were as consistently right as we think we are and if our leadership knew what it was doing. The sad fact is that Americans have always been ignorant about the outside world, and that costs us dearly every day. Moreover, the Bush team may be setting a new low in the quality of American leadership-no mean feat. Eric Collier Silverthorne...
Krauthammer indulged in some macho breast thumping about the U.S. standing tall and alone. That would be great if we Americans were as consistently right as we think we are and if our leadership knew what it was doing. The sad fact is that Americans have always been ignorant about the outside world, and that costs us dearly every day. Moreover, the Bush team may be setting a new low in the quality of American leadership. ERIC COLLIER Silverthorne, Colo...
...spectrum of Indian voters?and his party looks set to cash in on that appeal by calling general elections as early as April, five months before the scheduled date. The BJP is counting on Vajpayee's enhanced stature to project a drastically new image for itself. The party of macho Hindu nationalism, which stunned the world by testing a nuclear bomb in 1998, is now portraying itself as Vajpayee's party?the party of moderation, economic growth and peace. It's a dramatic makeover for a political outfit with a renegade past, and it has left many Indians wondering...
...nickname stuck. That's how he signed his letters home from Baghdad. His early missives have the tone of a jokester writing to a friend, not to a worried mom back in Pine Bluff, Ark. They open with "Dear Chocolate"--his name for her--and include macho tales of his refusal to duck while under fire, followed by admonitions not to worry. He cracks jokes about how insurgents once lobbed rockets at his unit's base as the soldiers lay in bed. "My son," says Catherine, "has a weird sense of humor...