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...make millions and to become a miser who never donated a penny to anything (except to the campaigns of politicians like Congressman Chris Cox of California) and to raise his own son on stories of the one kindly grocer who was never paid for the milk and the tomato soup. So why shouldn't the son, after a lonely but very comfortable life, leave instructions in the will for his lawyers to track down the descendants of that one kindly grocer and give them the entire estate...
...kitschy street theater you expect in a city like San Francisco. A gaggle of protesters in front of a grocery store, some dressed as monarch butterflies, others as Frankenstein's monster. Signs reading HELL NO, WE WON'T GROW IT! People in white biohazard jumpsuits pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer got sick...
Batterson: It's really just more alphabet soup. Look, all I would need is a major medical plan that I could get at a reasonable cost. And then if my employees needed some other benefits to cover the hangnails, we could give them that in additional salary and compensation, and they could handle it. I think it could be really simple...
...people who live by a river, just like trees planted by one, tend to be more rooted. Cairo, Ill., was a typical stop. The two-block heart of Main Street there looks like an abandoned movie set. The old brick buildings are crumbling. Only a beauty shop and a soup kitchen show any life. Once a stop on the Underground Railway for slaves (Mark Twain's Jim was hoping to head north from there), it was ripped by racial protests in the 1960s and '70s and has never fully recovered. But Main Street was recently repaved with bricks and fake...
...particularly suspicious of any "heartburn" that gets worse if you walk around or otherwise exert yourself physically. "One of my [heart attack] patients ordered out for miso soup to treat her 'indigestion,'" says Dr. Marianne Legato, director of the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia in New York City and author of The Female Heart. "Fortunately, her daughter stopped by, noticed her ashen color and slurred speech and got her to the hospital...