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...company of Did You Hear About the Morgans?, a comedy about a married couple on the outs (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) who, after exchanging glances with a mob hit man, are relocated in the FBI's Witness Protection Program to a Wyoming hamlet where two earth-salt older folks (Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen) teach them life lessons on why it's good to eat pork and pack a rifle. Though The Morgans offers what might seem a welcome respite from all the Oscar-wannabe dramas where Grim Death gargles at you from every scene, its faux-funniness...
...been the main treatment--in many places the only one--since the early 1970s, when U.N. officials first distributed sachets of sugar and salt to refugees in South Asia in an attempt to reduce cholera deaths. Today, rehydration salts mixed with clean water are given to millions of poor people across Africa and Asia. It works: the glucose in the water slows the exit of fluids from the body, allowing electrolytes to be absorbed through the intestinal walls and thus halting potentially deadly dehydration...
...with childhood obesity-related diseases costing Spain roughly $3.7 billion annually - or 7% of total health care costs - the government has decided to take drastic measures. If passed, the new legislation will prohibit schools from selling foods high in fat, sugar and salt, and require them to inform parents of the nutritional content of all meals served in their children's school cafeterias. Those measures are hardly unique - plenty of European countries place strict controls on what their children eat in school. Both France and England, for example, have banned vending machines selling junk food on school grounds...
Miss Baker was the kind of English teacher who had cats. Lots of them. While she had her friendly moments, which included treating her students to stale, generic-brand candy leftover from Halloweens past, she was the kind of teacher who got some kind of pleasure from pouring salt in the hormonal wounds of her pubescent students.I fell victim to her sick game when I boldly disagreed with her evaluation of Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird...
...advises people to take the new data with, well, a grain of salt. The information was collected by asking participants to self-report their exercise habits, which is a notoriously unreliable method - people are not very good at gauging their activity accurately. Add to that the fact that questionnaires are not refined enough to pick up small changes in people's energy intake and expenditure, and it's obvious why the findings are informative but not game-changing. "These data are useful in highlighting who should be targeted - the most difficult cases," says Rankin. In the new study, that group...