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...order a kit, swab your cheek, mail it to Switzerland and get your GenePartner ID. You can then be matched with anybody in the GenePartner database. Eventually, you'll be able to take your ID with you from dating site to dating site. Or post it on, say, Facebook. "You could see who in your network you're genetically compatible with," says Brown. And with any luck, spare yourself a lot of shirt-sniffing...
...than uniting to promote a culture that would make parenting easier for everyone, we have wasted a huge amount of energy and airspace on fighting among ourselves over what constitutes the perfect balance between head and heart and work and home. "I avoid old friends on Facebook," reads the post on Truemomconfessions.com "because when I compare my life to theirs, I am so ashamed of where...
Until recently, the restaurant industry had been pushing a federal bill that would require chains with 20 or more restaurants nationwide to post calorie information somewhere near the point of purchase but not on the menu itself. The industry claimed menu postings would be a costly logistical burden and would clutter valuable real estate on the menus. Not surprisingly, chains won't voice the most obvious argument against high-profile calorie counts. "They're concerned that consumers will be turned off by what they see," says Tom Forte, restaurant analyst at the Telsey Advisory Group, a consulting firm...
Meanwhile, Yum! Brands, parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has promised to post calorie information on its menus by January 2011. If the creator of KFC's Famous Bowls - fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and shredded cheese packed together for your gut-busting pleasure - volunteers to share these numbers, what excuse can other chains claim for not following suit, particularly if Washington lags in forcing them to do so? The writing is on the wall. And perhaps, as a result, fewer calories will be in your stomach...
This is an extremely fashionable topic at the moment. Some cultural observers even think Americans are due for a prolonged shift away from the consumption obsession of the post--World War II era. That strikes me as an iffy bet, but it is clear that the debt-fueled consumer spending binge of the past couple of decades is over. The household debt-to-income percentage more than doubled, from 65% in 1982 to 135% in 2007. That turned out to be way too much for us to handle, and now the leveraging process has gone into reverse. The latest household...