Word: pies
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...Those found in fish, nuts and certain vegetables may actually increase your chances of living a good long life. By the same token, not all diets that are low in fat are necessarily healthy--as anyone who has ever truly considered the difference between a low-fat banana cream pie and a banana could tell...
...remote--not even those of Somalia and Afghanistan. Of course, in reality, that was true before Sept. 11, but we didn't think much about it then. We and the Somalis breathe and pollute the same atmosphere, are bathed by the same oceans and compete for the same global pie of shrinking resources. Before Sept. 11, though, we thought of globalization as mainly meaning "us" sending "them" good things, like the Internet and Coca-Cola. Now we understand that globalization also means "them" being in a position to send "us" bad things, like terrorist attacks, emerging diseases, illegal immigrants...
Global production is increasing steadily. In Australia alone, output has doubled since 1995, with vine acreage up more than 50% in the past four years. Over the same period, the number of wine-drinkers worldwide has stagnated. "There are more and more of us fighting for the same-sized pie," says Charles Maurisset-Latour of the venerable Burgundian firm Maison Latour. The traditional major producers - France, Spain and Italy - have found themselves squeezed by state-of-the-art competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year...
...Thompson, 62, certainly miscalculated. A bookkeeper for an electrical contractor, she retired in May 2000 mainly on the security of $300,000 in a company profit-sharing plan. But the bear market has claimed half of her retirement pie, and Thompson, a divorce, recently gave up hope of finding a job in her hometown of Chesterfield, Mo. She will start looking again in the fall, she says. Her money had been invested in a mix of bonds, tech stocks, blue chips and large-company growth funds. She's kicking herself for not investing more conservatively...
...read this, thousands of Americans are lying in gloomy rooms, stripped naked, being pummeled by complete strangers. Why are the cops doing nothing? Because these people are doing it willingly, paying in fact, handsomely, to be poked and prodded and rubbed and kneaded and generally treated like human pie crust...