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...what would an optimal postmodern diet look like? Chances are it wouldn't look like the food pyramid, the official government guidelines released by the usda in 1992. Indeed, the food pyramid is due for an overhaul in 2003--although no one is yet willing to give any details. If Harvard's Willett has his way, the pyramid will make a greater distinction between the types of fats and carbs we should and shouldn't eat. Willett, unlike the usda, does not lump most carbohydrates at the pyramid's base or all fats at the pyramid's eat-sparingly pinnacle...
...question is whether the addition of these new concepts--glycemic load, a redrawn food pyramid--can restore sanity to a collective eating binge that has spiraled out of control. And if not, then what can? An appetite suppressant that makes people eat less but has no side effects? A thermogenesis pill that one can take after overindulging in ice cream...
CONFLICTING CLAIMS Chinese scholars say the glistening white pyramid perched on a bluff overlooking the Yalu River is the tomb of Koguryo's 5th century King Changsu. Some of their Korean counterparts disagree, believing their national hero to be buried in Koguryo's second capital, Pyongyang...
...ascend the tomb's stepped granite blocks to the mouth of the crypt. A bored-looking Chinese guide watches me curiously as I examine the dank and empty hulk of the pyramid's interior. In a sign of deference, Chinese and South Korean banknotes and coins are strewn across the stone slabs of what are ostensibly the sarcophagi of Changsu and his consort. It's a telling display of the two national claims on the site. Hearing of my interest in Koguryo, the guide challenges me, eager to gauge my opinion on a controversial subject. "Was Koguryo a Chinese...
...value as the cause of a stock's rise. The stock market's heady ascent over the past five years was driven often by faith in the performance of equities on Wall Street rather than by faith in the potential of the companies to earn money on Main Street. Pyramid schemes are based on a not dissimilar psychology - the consensual hallucination that everyone will win as long as everyone keeps buying in. And pyramid schemes always end in tears. Value is ultimately finite and tangible; there'd be no poverty if it could simply be willed into existence...