Rethinking the Food Guide Pyramid
“‘The public has been told for many years that fats are bad and carbohydrates are good,’ said Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. ‘In fact, we’ve known for 30 or 40 years that that’s not really true.’”
Hush Records is distributing their Bjork tribute album as a free MP3 download with a suggested PayPal donation of $2.
Colombia’s Air Assault on Coca Leaves Crop, Farmers in Its Dust
“‘It is all gone here,’ said one farmer, Juan Carlos Gaviria, 52, whose three acres of coca in the village of Achapos Sinai were sprayed in August. ‘It is no longer profitable for us to plant this. But the problem is that this hasn’t just ended coca, but everything else too.’”
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