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This problem of mistaken identity extends to quite a few of the foods we commonly call carbohydrates. First, a tiny rant about the word carbohydrate. When nutritionists first advised us to replace some of the fats in our diets with complex carbohydrates, what they had in mind was beans, fruits, leafy green vegetables and whole grains. What we loaded up on was pasta, white rice and French fries. Technically, we were following the rules, but by focusing on these highly processed or refined foods, we were missing out on a lot of antioxidants and other important nutrients. And we found...
David Martinez, 34, a website producer, joined Logitech 15 months ago after a stressful stint at an Internet start-up. There, he says, the CEO would "rant" if he noticed empty cubicles before 7 p.m. He decided to join Logitech because he was tired of "being driven into the ground. You have to put in the hours at a start-up, but they focused too much on those A people and not enough on the people who were doing the work...
...trade--lower prices. "The trade agreements of the '90s," Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has said, "represent the biggest tax cut in the history of the world." In truth, none of the plausible Democrats--not even Gephardt, who has made a career of protectionism--could do much more than rant about international labor and environmental standards if elected. The economic risks of tariffs are too great. But the posturing seems to be intensifying. The AFL-CIO endorsement is up for grabs, and several of the big unions that had planned to endorse Gephardt and Kerry are having second thoughts, given...
...North was miffed partly because the U.S. continued to demand that North Korea give up its nukes as a prelude to further negotiations, without a reciprocal nonaggression treaty. But more dominating in the country's post-talk rant was its sense of "betrayal." How or by whom, Pyongyang's official mouthpiece didn't elaborate. But frictions between North Korea and China have ratcheted up lately as the North seeks nuclear arms against Beijing's explicit wishes. The two communist nations were once so close that China sent troops to defend North Korea against the U.S. military. Now, Beijing appears...
...World; he did not believe honors either could or should be inherited. Were the project to survive (it did, as the Society of the Cincinnati), he proposed the officers follow the Chinese example and hand their decorations up to their parents rather than down to their children. This rant he confined to a letter to his daughter...