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...Mormon teenager in the 1970s, I was constantly admonished by church elders to keep my body strong and pure - free of alcohol, drugs and nicotine, and even of the caffeine in Coca-Cola. My spiritual health, according to church doctrine, was contingent on my physical health, as if my soul and my bloodstream were connected. These teachings were outlined in the Word of Wisdom, a crucial prophetic revelation given to Joseph Smith, the church's founder. Smith had a unique conception of God. Far from being some misty omniscient presence, God was a being of flesh, bone and hair...
...Harvard School of Public Health, is potato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your mouth, its tightly bundled molecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline for the blood. "You ate a potato," says Stampfer, "but your body is getting pure glucose." The flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides shoot up. HDL (good) cholesterol takes a dive. "It's a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes," says Stampfer...
...workers apply with equal force to the question of a cost of living adjustment. As inflation continues, a wage that begins as barely sufficient soon becomes a poverty wage. The claim that this can be further adjusted by “collective bargaining” is a piece of pure propaganda. There can be no “collective bargaining” where there is no collectivity and no bargaining power on the part of one of the participants. What will really happen, when the purchasing power of the University’s minimum wage declines to an insufficient level...
...Azhar, 34, as head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), is partly responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on its Parliament by five suicidal militants. It was his arrest--and that of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, leader of the other party India blames, Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure)--that New Delhi demanded and won from Pakistan last week...
That night I did not want to see one of Capra's heavily political films (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or Meet John Doe, for example), all chicken fat and diatribe, in which endearing little people go up against incipient corporate fascism. I wanted the pure, innocent allegory of It Happened One Night, which won five Oscars...