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...food-court mentality--Johnny eats a burrito, Dad has a burger, and Mom picks pasta--comes at a cost. Little humans often resist new tastes; they need some nudging away from the salt and fat and toward the fruits and fiber. A study in the Archives of Family Medicine found that more family meals tends to mean less soda and fried food and far more fruits and vegetables...
...school of thought has it that if Clinton runs as expected, Gore won't be able to resist being drawn into the contest, if only because of a kind of sibling rivalry that goes back to the days when each had to maneuver around the other for influence in Bill Clinton's White House. Gore is the one Democrat whose entry into the race could deprive Clinton of the automatic front-runner advantage she now enjoys with fund raisers and activists...
Ingenious as the horse's overall design is, humans couldn't resist tinkering with it. About 300 years ago, breeders began crossing fleet European mares with strong Arabian stallions, producing a faster animal that could run longer distances. All Thoroughbreds today are descended from just three Arabian males--the so-called foundation sires...
...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
Americans who resist the coffee culture are brewing up a growing market: U.S. tea sales are up sixfold since 1990. As tea goes gourmet, all-natural labels such as Rishi and Ito En are moving in on Snapple and Lipton. Here's a taste of what the tea world will be savoring this summer...