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...ankles with a crowbar” if they don’t win the very important upcoming match, “[He] even showed us the crowbar, and he took a swipe with it at one of the planks in the fence, the crowbar tore right into the wood and he said our bone would break apart just like that, in splinters, not a soul would be able to put them together again.” This violence is not just seen in authority figures, but is prevalent throughout Djata’s society. Gangs of kids with small grievances?...
...into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed subsidy of 51 per gal. of ethanol to divert corn from the food and feed-grain supply. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods--tree crops (like palm oil), grasses and wood products--but there's no case for doling out subsidies to put the world's dinner into the gas tank...
...forgot the most important thing. I saw how a soldier tore a baby, who was only a few months old, out of its mother's hands and bashed his head against an electric pylon. The baby's brain splashed on the wood. The mother went crazy...
...hundred years ago, George Lyman Kittredge differed as much from Barrett Wendell as today Barbara Lewalski differs from James Wood. Happily the collegiality, at least at Harvard, seems to have improved. Perhaps the best reason, from this point of view, for shortening the name, is to give full sanction to our methodological pluralism—which makes the department weird and great...
...attendees consistently broke down the practical application of the nutritional advice and offered recipe alternatives that would be palatable to less adventurous diners. Progress is slowly being made throughout the country, one whole-wheat bun at a time. And with a 500 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and their promise to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015, the promise of a healthy and delicious future seems bright. However unrealistic the superstar roster of the Healthy Kitchens conference and its vineyard paradise setting may have been, at the end of the day its message was powerful...