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Six Rules for Eating Wisely
Once upon a time Americans had a culture of food to guide us through the increasingly treacherous landscape of food choices: fat vs. carbs, organic vs
The Cooling Of America: Out of Tune and Lost in the Counterculture
The wrong people, the wrong drugs have taken over.
A Brief History of McDonald’s Happy Meal
Few things are more iconic in American kid culture then the garishly decorated McDonald’s Happy Meal box.
A Mandarin Grade School in Minneapolis
On the outside, Betsy Lueth’s school looks like any other in this arty neighborhood of Minneapolis: a sprawling, boxy red brick building with plain steel doors. Yet inside, the blond, gregarious Minnesotan presides over an institution unique in the heartland: Yinghua Academy, a charter public school where elementary students of every ethnicity study subjects ranging from math to American history in Mandarin
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash with Secular Courts
Israel’s domestic culture war between religious communities and the secular courts took to the streets on Thursday as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews paralyzed the streets of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak in a protest march. The target of their outrage was the imprisonment of 43 couples for refusing to allow their daughters to attend a religious school where they would have to mix with the daughters of religious Mizrahi Jews .
Eating Better Than Organic
Not long ago I had an apple problem.
10 Questions for Dan Savage
How did you come up with the idea for It Gets Better? Last summer I was reading about teen suicides, speaking at colleges and thinking that what I should be doing is going to high schools.
HP vs. Everybody
Be inconspicuous. If there’s one tenet of the legendary corporate culture known as the HP Way that CEO Mark Hurd has mastered, that’s it.
How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV
Standing in their uniform miniskirts and stilettos, three young women bend over ironing boards, pressing men’s shirts before a live studio audience.