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Nowhere have fresh starts and new attempts to achieve fitness been more evident than in the nation's supermarket basket and at the dinner table. Presbyterian Minister Sylvester Graham started the bulk wagon rolling in the 19th century with his famous cracker. Later Post and Kellogg began cleaning digestive systems with flakes of bran and corn in their Battlecreek, Mich., sanatoriums. With cheerful innocence, Americans have periodically embarked on reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable...
People have become deeply suspicious of the food they eat. Convenience foods and the microwave ovens in which to prepare them have turned the supermarket into an additive minefield: saturated fat, nitrites, saccharin, sodium and caffeine. Shoppers pause, read package labels, searching for poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror...
...down operations. As a result, the UNHCR'S chief of mission in Pakistan, Roman Kohaut, is retiring in disgust. "I'm fed up with the mess in Geneva," Kohaut told TIME'S Wibo Vandelinde last month. "UNHCR resembles a delicatessen that has grown into a huge supermarket but has never adapted its management. Geneva refuses to listen to urgent advice from the field...
Standing in line at the supermarket is not usually a barrel of laughs. But at Albertson's Food Center in San Jose, Calif., the checkout counter is turning out to be the most entertaining part of the visit. Albertson's, along with five other U.S. supermarkets, has installed a tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called...
...people seem pleased enough. Says Peter Scialabba, 37: "More stores should have them. Lots of times you wonder if you are getting the right change, but this eliminates the wonder." One dissenting voice belongs to Linda Swope, an Albertson's customer who complains about one part of the supermarket experience that no machine can make pleasant. Says she: "It's disgusting. No one wants to hear that one lousy steak costs...