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...Things to Eat Before It's Too Late refers not to a diminishing American landscape but to the limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans. It's a bucket list of restaurants serving local, often obscure dishes, ranked cheerily from best to almost best. The Sterns' nation is one with at least a few places still serving the Kentucky burgoo (thick stew) Kurlansky dug up in those WPA files, as well as South Carolina perloo (meat-and-rice dish), Wisconsin hoppel poppel (meal in a skillet), Ohio sauerkraut balls and even the Vermont sour-milk doughnuts that Kurlansky...
...games. Versus is Channel 603 on DirecTV, and its placement isn't pretty on cable either. On Time Warner Cable's Los Angeles system, it's Channel 267; in New York, Cablevision puts Versus on Channel 146; and in Dallas, Versus gets prime position on Channel 254. Of the nation's 115 million television households, some 40 million do not even get Versus. (See pictures of second-place athletes...
...neighbors who are out of work are being told that the only way that the recession will end is if the government buys its way out of economic trouble. With unemployment rising, the math that taxpayers face is that fewer people will have to pay more to keep the nation from a depression and worsening unemployment. In addition, they are being told that the future of American social services is also in their hands...
...view this legislation as a small step at the beginning of a longer-term goal to increase the overall health of Americans. Congress must proceed cautiously to ensure that employees are motivated to get into shape in a way that is both fair and beneficial to the nation as a whole. Surely the obesity epidemic cannot be stopped overnight, but encouraging employees to get on the Stairmaster is a small step toward that...
...expression of our common values and democratic choices. The consequences of depriving our state and local governments of critical funding will be felt at a very human level by our most vulnerable citizens. The private cost of public poverty cuts to the heart of what makes us a great nation, the “Shining City on the Hill” so dear to disciples of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan was fond of saying that “government is the problem.” If nothing else good emerges from these next few months in states like California...