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...African-American family has been middle class since the 1700s and deeply involved in the fight for black equality. You brilliantly describe what it feels like to make $150,000 a year, pay high taxes and yet have a white woman in a supermarket line who assumes you are on welfare turn to her husband and say of the porterhouse steak in your basket, "Thanks to us, see what they can afford?" This piece should be required reading for every American...
...drive vehicles, which generally guzzle more fuel than autos, have set U.S. sales records for four of the past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...
...there in this great land of ours, the beige-clad ranks of the image- deprived stand in huddled multitudes. They are people who do not realize their hair is too long or their pants are too short, professional people who walk around dressed unwittingly like flight attendants or supermarket managers. Who will tell them their professional image needs help? And how does one begin? Over lunch maybe, with a lame joke? "Hey, I bet this salad knows a thing or two about dressing. Ha! But seriously . . ." It is like telling them they have halitosis...
Traditional risk assessment weighs the magnitude of the danger against the probability it will occur. The chance of dying from a cyanide-laced piece of fruit was infinitesimally small compared to the possibility of being run over by the proverbial bus on the way to the supermarket. But rather than issue a warning to examine fruit carefully, the Food and Drug Administration impounded ! 2 million crates of fruit at airports and docks in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami -- a still life of waste -- and advised consumers not to eat any Chilean fruit, which includes most of the peaches, blueberries, blackberries...
Modern-day eating habits make it hard to be careful. Many Americans rely on restaurant or supermarket salad bars -- places where the food is left to sit for many hours and handled by many people, often in slovenly fashion. Notes dietitian Bettye Nowlin of the American Dietetic Association: "I've seen people at take-out stores who don't seem to have a problem sneezing on food and then offering...