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When a tiny natural-foods market called Whole Foods opened in Austin, Texas, in 1980, it served a comparably tiny clientele: an assortment of vegetarians, macrobiotic dieters and those seeming oddballs who took supplements such as ginkgo biloba and echinacea. Like other mom-and-pop organic shops that dotted the country, the store was friendly, cozy, intensely concerned with its products' purity and expensive...
...notice that the conversations we have with our children are not safe from the government. It seems quaint that on the day Monica was handed over by Tripp to Starr's deputies, she could turn to her mother with the expectation that whatever she said, Mom wouldn't tell. But in Ken Starr's America, moms do tell--or else...
...Mike had a choice to bring the Lay-Z-Boy or his mom out here from Nebraska," recounts Lewis. Tringe brought the chair...
...paint drooled off the ceiling and into our eyes, onto our clothes and all over the antique bureau. (Mom and Dad didn't like that.) But by the next day, we had finished. Like Michaelangelo painting the Sistine chapel, we revolted against the constraints of architecture and created a window to the heavens. Or maybe we just made a mess...
...women may be good for some things, having a real relationship with them wasn't among them. There were also the countless little things I was never quite sure were racially motivated, the restaurant that refused to seat me and my mostly black and Hispanic friends after prom, the mom who requested that another lifeguard perform first aid for her injured child, the doctor who looked at me funny when I told him I attend Harvard (yes, the one in Boston...