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...Madelyn Lee Payne was born into a strict Methodist family in Peru, Kans., in 1922. She fell in love with Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman, and, against her parents' wishes, married him in 1940. When he enlisted in the Army during World War II, she got a job on a Wichita assembly line making Boeing B-29s. Their daughter was born in 1942, and because Stanley had wanted a boy, they named the girl Stanley Ann. Over the next two decades, Dunham moved at least five times - always in pursuit of her husband's next adventure as a salesman...
...meatless lifestyle never really caught on in the West, although it would sometimes pop up during health crazes and religious revivals. The Ephrata Cloister, a strict religious sect founded in 1732 in Pennsylvania, advocated vegetarianism - as well as celibacy. The 18th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that animal suffering was just as serious as human suffering, and likened the idea of human superiority to racism...
...Strict veganism prohibits the use of animal product, even if it isn't food, but like any lifestyle choice that ends in "-ism," there are plenty of people who cheat. The vitamin B12 is found almost entirely in animal products, so many vegans eat fortified food or take a vitamin to get the right amount. And while American vegetarianism has broken free of its philosophical and religious roots, becoming an accepted health choice - many restaurants offer vegetarian options and most dinner party planners now ask "is anyone vegetarian?" before planning the menu - veganism is still tied to the animal-rights...
Vegans can be as strict or lax as they want to be in their food choices: the International Vegetarian Union's website includes vegan-friendly reminders about baking pans greased with animal fat, grain cereals that include animal-based glycerin, and sugar refined with bone charcoal. Then there's raw veganism, which is an offshoot of veganism in which none of the food can be cooked. Take that a step further and you get "mono meals," the idea that the stomach should only digest one type of food at a time. Basically, if you eat it, there is probably someone...
...they were a decade ago, when the Asian crisis rocked global markets, but they are still nowhere near as sophisticated, nor as liquid, as Chinese policymakers would someday like them to be. The value of China's currency, the renminbi, is still basically controlled by the government. There are strict limits on how much Chinese citizens can legally invest abroad. There are trade barriers on what businesses foreign banks can go into inside China. And there are no derivatives markets. In an Oct. 21 speech in New York to a U.S.-Chinese business group, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...