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...swallowed by the restaurant industry or passed along to consumers will be worth the increased benefit to resident health and the long-term decrease in health care costs. Since many restaurants already restrict trans fat use and others are considering limits, the cost of changing should not be vast and, in some cases, can even be neutral. Restaurants just need a focused deadline and direction to actually follow through...
...Israelis live beyond the Green Line, as the old border is called, most in walled-in suburbs like Ma'aleh Adumim outside Jerusalem, which could be an estate of southern California condominiums if it weren't for the 300-year-old olive trees implanted in the traffic circles. The vast majority of Israelis living in the West Bank today do so less out of any ideological fervor than because the housing is cheap. But some 70,000 settlers are religious nationalists like Harel, who consider Palestinian land to be their Jewish birthright. They tend to live in remote outposts, surrounded...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
...most popular living playwright. He stopped setting plays among hip and prosperous insiders like himself, dwelling in the Meccas of Manhattan or Beverly Hills. He began instead to evoke the bygone lives of the world he came from, people so conscious of their ordinariness, their smallness, their vulnerability to vast social forces that for them laughter could not be a healing touch, only a palliative relief...
...writer needs for his mobile office, as his best tool is a superbly exercised imagination. Ever since the then aspiring young poet left Brisbane for a 10,000-km walking trek around the Mediterranean almost 50 years ago, Hall has worked best off the leash. Much of his creatively vast colonial trilogy, which began with 1988's Captivity Captive and ended with the 1993 Miles Franklin Award?winning The Grisly Wife, was written from notes made while Hall walked his dogs at his beloved headland home on the far south coast of New South Wales. His most recent novel...