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Thanks to a flooded plant in Atlanta and a broken bakery in Tennessee, Kellogg Co. confirmed last week that it will have to ration its Eggo shipments well into next year. Considering the brand claims nearly 70% of the frozen-waffle industry, the shortage has been called a national calamity, further proof of global warming's reach, a sign of the apocalypse, evidence of a corporate conspiracy and a good opportunity to cash in. (Witness the Katy, Texas, resident who posted a "rationed" box of Blueberry Eggos on eBay - "toaster not included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waffles | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Throughout his tale, Cal recounts a century of American history—Ellis Island, the Great Depression, the River Rouge Ford plant, Vietnam, Detroit race riots, the desegregation of schools, Watergate, the Cold War, and the oil embargoes. In doing so, Eugenides questions what it means to be American—citizenship, attitude, and history. Despite being third generation American and despite her family having climbed the class ladder­—at least achieving the financial aspect of the American Dream—Calliope feels out of place in her private preparatory all-girls school...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Today Hazen sits in his office, papers strewn everywhere. A spider plant hangs from the ceiling. As the Associate Librarian for Collection Development at Harvard, Hazen oversees the acquisitions of one of the biggest library systems in the world. On the first floor of Widener, among the hundreds of stacks and hundreds of students on laptops, Hazen writes reports that emphasize a digital future. But he is not afraid to also wonder if something is lost in these new kinds of resources...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the Web | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...provide housing, medical, pension and educational facilities for all employees and their families. This lifts the agricultural peasantry into the middle class where they produce fewer, better educated children; it allows larger profits which results in better R&D and farming methods, better forecasting of which crops to plant to meet demand, improved ability to change crops when needed, and better and cheaper transport for harvests to market. If you truly want to end poverty, start by absorbing small landholders into large-scale business. Joanna Perr, MBABANE, SWAZILAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food for Thought | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Gordon also found in his mouse populations that changing the animals' diet caused a dramatic and rapid shift in the population of bacteria in their gut. Switching a mouse from low-fat plant chow to a high-fat Western diet resulted in an explosion of Firmicutes in less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Cause of Obesity: The Bacteria in Your Gut? | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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