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...doctor, I sometimes have difficulty remembering which are the good fatty acids and which are the bad. So when McDonald's announced last week that it was changing its cooking oil--reducing trans-fatty acids 48% and increasing polyunsaturated fats 167%--I had to pull out an old textbook to make sure this was a good thing. It turns out it is. And more important, it's a step in the right direction for the fast-food industry...
Yesterday’s game had all the elements that one would come to expect from world-class soccer—textbook goals, effortless passing and inexplicable officiating...
...textbook soccer. It was how we like to play. That’s what made it the best,” Yenne said. “We were getting chances all half and finally something came...
...huge hardcover that weighs ton, costs fifty bucks and has become required reading. No, it's not a textbook. It's Dave McKean's "Cages," (NBM Publishing Inc.; 496(!)pp.) A self-described comic novel, "Cages" first appeared as a series of sporadically published books from 1991 through 1996. Then the collected "Cages" became a victim of successive publishing bankruptcies, and has been out of print for some time. As ambitious as it is gigantic, it has now returned. Possibly the most high-end comic ever published, "Cages" combines art-book production values with a story about Life, Death...
...minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes, "We can't say we didn't know what was going on. People who stood up against it were told to shut up. The government...