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...grow coffee in full sun destroys the habitat for many migratory songbirds. Traditional shade-growing preserves the habitat for these birds. Not surprisingly, the Audubon Society sells shade-grown java beans called Cafe Audubon (say it with a French accent). Next time in Starbucks, order an "organic shade-grown skim latte." Do it for the birds...
...anyone who has flipped through Vogue or Harper's Bazaar in recent years can attest, it's quite a challenge to find models who don't look dour and perplexed, as though they've just gone through painful psychotherapy or mistaken whole milk for skim. The fashion business, for all its outward absurdity, isn't cheeky and good-humored at its core, and that is perhaps why Isaac Mizrahi made such an impression...
Take heart disease. Foods like butter, cheese, ice cream and whole milk are packed with saturated fat, which clogs arteries and can lead to heart attacks. That's why most nutritionists advise switching to low-fat or skim milk and eating more yogurt and cottage cheese than Haagen-Dazs and Brie. Even skim milk, though, can trigger allergies in some people, including infants, who in any case will get more iron and other key nutrients from breast milk or formula...
...must you flee from milk entirely? Yes, says Cohen, who holds that skim milk is the devil's brew. It's full of--are you sitting down?--protein. And here's where the ADC starts twisting the facts to reach wild conclusions. Allergies are frequently triggered by proteins (true); asthma is an allergic condition (true); it's been increasing draatically (true); doctors don't know the cause (true); therefore, the protein in milk must be the culprit...
...while readers of younger, more "hip" weeklies often skim pages and are drawn in by fancy pages designs, readers of The New Republic approach each issue with a certain patience and thoroughness. According to demographic surveys, readers on average spend more than an hour on each issue, often referring to the same issue multiple times...