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...think it's a matter of people not knowing the true costs of a cheap meal or do they just not have many other choices because chips are cheaper than broccoli? I think it's a product of people not knowing. I don't think it's a coincidence that there's been a concerted effort on the part of the industry to keep the consumer disconnected from their food. All the advertising that goes into promoting healthy food which is made up of sugar, salt and fat - it's very confusing to navigate this system, and it's done...
...result of this primitive, organic bond which links each story, the emotions and actions portrayed in the collection are unfettered and, on occasion, brutal. The subject matter of many of the stories is somber, as Rash’s narrators recount situations ranging from an eleven year old with meth-addicted parents in “The Ascent,” to the killing of a dog accused of stealing eggs during the Great Depression in “Hard Times...
...while Romney so far has made many of the right moves in setting himself up for 2012, there remains among Republican wise men and women the nagging feeling that neither Romney nor any of the most conspicuous crop of candidates has what it takes to challenge Obama, no matter how weakened the President...
...avoid stagnation. But when prodded about the political openness needed to encourage that breakthrough, he snapped back into the language of control. "Consolidated power in Russia is the instrument of modernization. I would even insist it is the only one," he said. "If you want to put the matter on autopilot and wait for squabbling liberals with their endless debates to give birth to an economic miracle, you will be waiting forever. I guarantee you that ... We need the consolidation [of power] that will control the situation...
...haven't been more damage and deaths than what we've seen so far." Chile has been credited with mandating strict building codes. But even the best earthquake-fitted infrastructure would have trouble withstanding magnitudes much higher than 8.0. The Chile quake, Zapata says, "is off the charts no matter how you look at it," which is why so many bridges and roads have been destroyed there. (See the top 10 news stories...