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...Homespun, Ulrich studies what 11 objects from colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon—the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration...
Since Endeavor began helping out, those businesses have generated more than $390 million in revenue and created more than 5,700 new jobs. There's only one stipulation: Endeavor's companies must continue the virtuous circle, giving money back to the nonprofit organization and donating time to educate those who would follow in their footsteps...
...Only people whose knowledge of world history begins with the death of Princess Di would fall for the argument you can provoke the authorities into system-changing overreaction. It tends to work the other way around. It's a revolutionary's equivalent of the fallacy that otherwise virtuous people, by committing every conceivable abomination, can hasten the advent of the messiah. Any of these revolutionary theoreticians ever hear of the Black Panthers? Of what happened to them...
Americans will find it easier to cope with such a development if Europeans are modest about their own habits. Whatever may have been true before last week, this is hardly the time for Europeans to claim they are more virtuous than the gun-loving, arrogant Americans. Ask the police and the demonstrators in Goteborg what they think of European values...
...should be aware that these products are designed by marketers who are keenly aware that women make 80% of the food-shopping decisions in American households. The scant 2 gm of soy in each serving of Harmony probably isn't enough to do anything but make a woman feel virtuous for the morning, says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. And nutrition bars, while better for you than a Snickers, aren't as good as eating an actual meal with fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products...