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Dominick's supermarket pays Field Trip Factory up to $300,000 a year to fill the void. On a recent tour, second-graders from Universal School, a Muslim school in Bridgeview, Ill., learned how sugar-laden kids' cereals are placed on lower shelves. Li Schiavitti, 75, the store's star field-trip guide, advised them to reach instead for something healthier--like Toasted Oats, Dominick's house brand...
...world for expats, with London No. 2. I demand a recount. I may not have sophisticated economic data to back me up, but I do have anecdotes. My friend Julian, a lawyer, just moved from London to Tokyo. "Tokyo can be pricey," he says. "You go into a supermarket, put a nice honeydew melon in your trolley and pay ¥15,000, which is $150. But if you avoid melons and Kobe beef it's about the same as London." I doubt it. London real estate is as absurdly inflated as its Page 3 girls. Two months ago a businessman...
...execs to know when they've broken the law. No ruling yet, but the case is giving the law's many foes plenty of ammo. France's Visible Hand Who's better positioned to set prices - the market, or French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy? Consumer groups and even some supermarket chains have long complained that a 1996 law designed to protect small retailers has hiked prices. Last week Sarkozy agreed, but instead of changing the "Galland law," he brokered a deal between retail chains and suppliers that will cut the price of some 4,000 items, from baby food...
...stayed pretty much the same for the past 50,000 years or so, we humans have utterly transformed our environment. Over the past century especially, technology has almost completely removed physical exercise from the day-to-day lives of most Americans. At the same time, it has filled supermarket shelves with cheap, mass-produced, good-tasting food that is packed with calories. And finally, technology has allowed advertisers to deliver constant, virtually irresistible messages that say "Eat this now" to everyone old enough to watch...
...appetite for meat and sweets were essential to human survival, but they didn't lead to obesity for several reasons. For one thing, the wild game our ancestors ate was high in protein but very low in fat--only about 4%, compared with up to 36% in grain-fed supermarket beef. For another, our ancestors couldn't count on a steady supply of any particular food. Hunters might bring down a deer or a rabbit or nothing at all. Fruit might be in season, or it might not. A chunk of honeycomb might have as many calories as half...