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Last night might have been romantic, with dinner and wine and a walk along the Charles. But you know what wasn’t so romantic? That small pile of asparagus—or mushrooms, or pâté—that accumulated on your plate towards the end of your main course. In case you thought your date didn’t notice, she did. We noticed too—and now everybody knows.We’ve all told ourselves that picky eating is perfectly natural, and at a certain age, it was. Whether someone picks...
...about. Allen: In Africa it's a phrase, a way of life that people subscribe to. Meaning community, people building all they want and supporting each other, and being of one. We always say it, jokingly sometimes. If somebody walks into a room and they have one plate of food, Paul will be like, "Way to ubuntu." Pierce: "That's not ubuntu. I need a plate...
...badge of honor among the newly minted middle class. If the neighbors I've met are any indication, many people will still drive into town rather than commute on a crowded train. This, despite the fact that it costs the equivalent of some $6,000 to get a license plate that allows you to drive on Shanghai's highways. Zhang Wenming, who lives just behind us, drives to work every day and says he'll continue to do so. But Shanghai is already gridlocked and smoggy and getting worse by the day. That's part of the reason my wife...
...ways, but it's the bones that take the worst pounding. Activities like skating uphill on a Plexiglas surface, which allows skaters to strengthen their strides, or doing the explosive muscle-building movements known as plyometrics can wreak havoc on the skeletal system, particularly the epiphyseal plate, or growth plate, which is essential in bone development--a process that is not complete until the late teens...
Harming a plate before a child hits puberty can affect the way the bones grow. "I saw one kid who was asked to do multiple plyometric jumps through the pain, and he pulled a growth plate off his knee," says Dr. Jordan Metzl, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine's youth sports committee. "Another kid tore a piece of plate off his hip from using too high weights while lunging and squatting...