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Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at M.I.T., is the author of The Return of Depression Economics (W.W. Norton & Co.; $23.95), which was published...
While his ultimate aspirations for the St. Francis Foundation are not clear, the fund was his scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...
None of this argues for a return to an all-butter diet. Margarines may not lower LDL levels much, but lower them they do. What's more, food scientists in Europe have developed margarines free of trans-fatty acids, and these are slowly making their way to grocery shelves in the U.S. Until they're in wide use here, it's up to manufacturers to give consumers the food labels they need--and it's up to consumers to read them...
Cypress explains that "our values tend to balance respect for ecology with respect for people." Poling a canoe into the marsh, as baby alligators dart around the lily pads, he passes the tree islands where the Miccosukees practice sacred rites. When asked if the Everglades really could return to the way it was a century ago, he smiles mischievously. "That's easy," he says. "Just give it all back...
...year. Maynard kept her mouth shut for 25 years until telling all in a memoir and then putting 14 of Salinger's love letters on the auction block. Peter Norton, a Silicon Valley tycoon, bought the letters last week for $156,000 and announced that he was going to return them to Salinger. For this, Norton has been hailed a noble do-gooder, although I think he's a bit of a killjoy, using his money to quash a nice little scandal right at the beginning of summer...