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...Obama looks sharp. He leans forward with a knowing smile, probably thinking about how his presidency intimations are driving the media into a frenzy. According to the dust jacket, the book is about 400 pages of hollow political drivel about bringing hope, happiness, and milk and honey back to America. The inside flap promises a few personal stories about Obama, but don’t expect anything too profound. As a potential presidential candidate, Obama has to keep things boring...
Economic improvements in recent years have led to a growing middle class of consumers in emerging markets who are seeking better nutrition and, more important, are able to afford it. This group's once predominantly grain-dependent diet now includes meat, milk and cheese, as well as more fresh fruits and vegetables. More than 300 million people in China, probably 100 million in Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia, and millions more in the rest of Latin America and Asia are increasingly beginning to resemble their counterparts in the West in terms of what they eat and how they shop for groceries...
...Sold is told in poetic vignettes in the voice of Lakshmi, a 13-year-old girl who lives in rural Nepal. Life is grueling there for women young and old. "A girl is like a goat," a local saying goes. "Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it's time to make a stew." Her stepfather sells her for 800 rupees to a woman who spirits her off to a brothel in Calcutta. If the book sounds grim, it is. It's also the stuff awards committees love; Sold was just...
Cloning Dinner Same beef as last night, please The FDA looks set to allow sales of milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring by year's end. Consumers may shriek yuck, but studies show food from replicated animals is perfectly safe...
This White House is certainly not the first Administration to milk religious groups for votes and then boot them unceremoniously back out to pasture. In his days as a notorious "hatchet man" for President Richard M. Nixon, before he had allowed Jesus to transform his life, Chuck Colson used to oversee outreach to the religious community. "I arranged special briefings in the Roosevelt Room for religious leaders, ushered wide-eyed denominational leaders into the Oval Office for private sessions with the President," Colson later wrote. "Of all the groups I dealt with, I found religious leaders the most naive about...