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...1980s foodmakers began replacing "sat fats" with trans-fatty acids--unsaturated oils to which hydrogen has been added. This made the oils thick enough to use in baked products and margarine, gave packaged foods a longer shelf life and made all foods safer--or so it was thought. The new stuff was not listed as a fat, but if you saw a "hydrogenated" oil on an ingredient list, a trans fat is what...
...decades later, on an impossibly hot July night in 1999, I finally met the Real Cuba. He was an old man, dressed sharply and accompanied by two beautiful young women who were clearly neither his nurses nor his nieces. He wore his trademark white Panama hat and clenched a thick H. Upmann cigar in his teeth. And when he arrived to watch our band play at la Casa de Amistad in Havana, the entire crowd turned toward him and applauded, a long ovation that he shrugged off with a sly smile before sitting down with his escorts and ordering...
...ANGELES—Last Thursday my movie producer boss handed me a thick pile of scripts to read and evaluate over the long weekend. “Excuse me,” I said, “but do I give thumbs up for quality or for scripts that will make money?” My boss looked puzzled. Then we both smiled—you find out quickly in Los Angeles that giving consumers what they want is the same as giving them quality. And I’m rapidly learning that it cuts the other way, too. People...
...years ago, protected it during wars and had now decided they had the right to levy taxes and restrict British trade. The edict added that the felons in German jails "shall be emptied out" and sent to England "for the better peopling of that country." Lest anyone be so thick as to miss the point, it concluded by noting that all of these measures should be considered "just and reasonable" in England because they were "copied" from the rules imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies...
...been saved by decades of fierce environmental activism, and it?s right on your doorstep if you?re staying on Hastings Street?Noosa?s main drag and location of its best accommodations. From an apartment here, it?s a short stroll into the park, where walking trails lead through thick forest and koalas, goannas and other wildlife abound. You might encounter the local fauna downtown, too. While happily devouring an ice cream on Hastings Street one afternoon, I looked up and saw an Australian scrub turkey leave its natural habitat nearby to cross the busy road. No one else looked...