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Have you ever raised an idea in one of your pieces and then later - say, when a new nugget of information emerges - realized it was off the mark? Yeah. Or, more often, additional evidence starts to pile up and you realize you just positioned the article the wrong way. In The Tipping Point, I would write the chapter about the decline of crime in New York differently, just because we know so much more about crime than we used...
...weekend ends with you and your suitemates nursing spinning heads and aching backs, pour your sorrows into a massive pile of college-priced oysters at Rialto, while procrastinating over that paper and dreaming of next weekend...
...toward him or Hillary. He gave me some of the best professional advice I've ever received: Write what you see, because "what history needs more of is first-person testimony." "Never feel guilty about reading; it's what you do to do what you do." "Never join a pile-on, but it's O.K. to start one." And this: When I told him his column was great, he said, "It's not a column, it's a pillar...
...school program that provides locally grown food to school cafeterias. The Department of Agriculture is expected to expand school nutrition standards this year, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 63% of schools have stopped selling sugary soft drinks. Yet despite these efforts, most students still pile unhealthy foods onto their lunch trays. Currently, 80% of schools serve lunches with more than the recommended amount of saturated fat; 42% don't offer daily fresh fruits and vegetables. No matter how you measure it, there's very little nutrition in a Tater...
...decree or other legally enforceable measure." India and Sri Lanka also top the list. Developed countries Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan come in low, having only instituted a few voluntary provisions, and the U.S. is - in the words of IBFAN founder Annelies Allain - "at the bottom of the pile." Its position in the lowest category 9 indicates that the country has taken no action to implement laws that would protect breastfeeding or restrict the marketing practices of the formula-milk companies...