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...before we were very social creatures, we were decidedly hungry creatures, and we ate anything we could lay our hands on. Insects, worms and up to 20 kinds of game were nothing to a hunter-gatherer. As our tastes became more refined, the number of items on our menus shrank, mostly because we did a better job of intuiting what we needed. Cultures that developed a taste for rice and beans didn't know a lick about combining incomplete proteins, but that's what they were doing. People who learned to enjoy high-fiber foods didn't understand intestinal health...
...sport's country-club partner, golf, is also on the downswing. Participation is flat: annual rounds played have fallen 4.5%, to 494 million, since 2000. In the five-year period from 1997 to 2002, according to the NSGA, spending on golf clubs, balls and apparel shrank from $5.33 billion to $4.6 billion, a 14% drop. Equipment sales fell again last year. Golf has even taken down a Wall Street firm. Gotham Partners, a hedge fund with $300 million in assets, shut down last year because of losses on golf-course investments: too many new courses have been built...
...piece of information is that all the patients that we studied whose tumors shrank [from Iressa] have a mutation,” said Dr. Bruce E. Johnson ’75, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who co-authored the study...
...April 2003, and by September, the Pentagon had cooked up a plan to seize al-Sadr. But military officials in Baghdad eventually concluded he was a minor player who was gradually being marginalized, his army more phantom than real, his support flagging as the size of his Friday crowds shrank. U.S. officials put the arrest plan on hold and even signaled that al-Sadr might escape punishment if his behavior improved. The question the Americans asked, says Brigadier General Mark Hertling, deputy commander of the Army's 1st Armored Division, which controls Baghdad, was, Do you stir up a hornet...
...thinking, O.K., we're getting 18% of the pot. That's reasonable," remembers an aide for a New York member of Congress. Then, for 2004 money, the Department of Homeland Security announced an even longer list of 50 cities, including Columbus, Ohio, and Fresno, Calif. And the dollars shrank to $675 million. At that point, Weiner says, he lost heart. "We found a solution, and we're even screwing that up. We have some cities on there that don't even have minor-league baseball teams," he says. "Homeland security is just as much a pork barrel as every other...