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...plump woman reports suffering a five-stitch scalp cut earlier in the day but finding she did not need a cigarette to ease the shock. We applaud. Arthur, however, still craves a smoke. "I started to eat a carnation at our table," he says, "and it was better than spinach. But I know that if I really get to like them, Ralph Nader will come out next day and tell me that carnations are injurious to my health...
Puppets who make soup of chocolate and spinach; creatures who ask for a ukulele to be mended and then eat the Instrument; a nose, like the one in Gogol's short story, that assumes a personality and speech when detached from a facethese are the touchstones of enchantment that reach far beyond ghettos...
...hands clasped behind back." But as a fair observer, Service, a writer and amateur naturalist, points out that human logic isn't much help in understanding a screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick? Or why, though something of a gourmet, Owl once consumed a lucky rabbit's foot down to the metal clip? "Since I can't get a reasonable...
...brain damage and other developmental defects. Though this phenomenon may have no relevance to MSG's use in food, there is no medical evidence on the possible damage of concentrated MSG in a baby's bloodstream. In fact, many potentially harmful chemicals occur naturally in familiar foods. Spinach is rich in oxalic acid, which is the foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make...
...through pension funds and mutual funds. For many families, tumbling stock prices have at least temporarily shattered some cherished dreams. Yet the market's unsettled state brings a wry kind of cheer to Washington's inflation fighters. In their rather clinical view, stock prices are much like spinach prices or durable-goods orders: an economic indicator. Because the market mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning...