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...saturated fat -- the kind that boosts blood cholesterol, the villain in many forms of heart disease. Like other oils, canola boasts a long shelf life, has the ability to remain odorless at high frying temperatures and averages 120 calories per tablespoon. But canola's biggest attraction is its scant, 6% level of saturated fat, in contrast to 14% in olive oil and 51% in palm oil. Canola also contains high levels of monounsaturated fat. For a number of years, consuming that substance was thought to reduce the "bad" type of cholesterol in the blood known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein...
...Society, and like-minded scholars argue that a work of art reflects the culture, the times and also the sex of its creator. They contend that a mostly white male heterosexual establishment has shaped the form and content as well as the critical evaluation of Western art, giving scant attention to female artists whose work may reflect a sensibility different from theirs. "The old belief held that a work of art was the same, no matter when or where or who looked at it," says Linda Nochlin, a Yale University art professor and a leading feminist historian...
...Majesty is trying to tighten her purse strings. Since 1983, maintenance costs for the fleet of cars has dropped from $83,463 to $70,736, while the bill for flowers has grown by a scant $370, to $74,002. But despite a barely concealed disdain for the media at the palace, the cost of newspapers has almost doubled...
...negative campaigning. In fact, the quantity of rough material hasn't changed that much. But the chorus of slurs, half-truths and unsubstantiated allegations is all too often drowning out debate about education reform, fiscal problems and other issues that voters have every right to expect. It is scant consolation that in many states the campaigns might have been worse...
...bachelor from Weare, N.H., keenly senses that he has been chosen by Bush and history to cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that issue, flatly refusing to discuss Roe even in the wake of lengthy grilling by committee chairman Joseph Biden. Though he acknowledged the right of married couples to privacy, he refused to budge further in discussing either privacy or abortion rights. When asked whether he could understand the anguish of a woman facing...