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...Cubism of Picasso and Braque had been of little interest to him. But by 1914 Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches, why care how you broke up goblets and cafe tables? Similarly, the Expressionist and Symbolist art of the prewar era, with its yearning toward transcendence, seemed now like an evasion of the duty to show the age its true, terrifying face...
Some foods did stand out in the data, however. Potatoes, while not clearly harmful or beneficial, tilted more to the bad side, as did eggs and meat--all foods that are consumed sparingly in traditional Mediterranean diets. Vegetables, legumes, nuts (in moderation) lean to the good side, with the greatest benefit coming from the consumption of large quantities of fruit. As you might expect, the NEJM study also showed that a Mediterranean diet did not eliminate the unsalutary effects of smoking or overeating...
...butted heads with the International Whaling Commission, claiming that the body's strict antiwhaling regulations are an affront to whale-loving Japanese culture?and taste buds. Last week, however, the country's Fisheries Agency proposed a compromise that the whale-eating lobby may be able to stomach: allow the meat of beached whales to be used for human consumption. The agency claims the policy change?carcasses of whales that flop ashore must be incinerated or buried under current law?is motivated primarily by a need to save money. In January 2002, for example, officials spent more than...
...case, whale meat is no longer fashionable among many Japanese, especially the young, so the issue has become less about taste than national pride. "We don't want to be told what to do," says Takanori Nagatomo, chief of the Whaling Section of the Fisheries Agency. Until the whole country decides to go whaleless, Shamu would be wise to steer clear of Japan...
...moratorium on commercial whaling took effect. It was intended to allow recovery and assessment of whale populations, but was never airtight: Norway filed a timely objection and, under IWC rules, continues its whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned up in markets. Iceland went so far as to quit the IWC in 1992, protesting the moratorium. It rejoined last October - a move that Italy, Mexico and New Zealand, citing proce- dural flaws, still reject...