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According to surveys, about half of American households have at least one person on a diet at any given time. Dieting is normal — more normal than eating what you want to eat. How many of us now live on various versions of Lean Cuisine during the workweek and pay premium for a plate of swordfish and greens on Saturday night?
By Sallie TisdaleOctober 2000Filing for divorce, buying a skirt that ended above the knees, getting a stomach-stapling operation
By Our ReadersOctober 2000Ground zero, fuzzy kittens, the most beautiful roundhouse right punch
By Our ReadersAugust 2000Raising money for a softball team, sharing a bag of rock candy, making gummy-bear jewelry
By Our ReadersOctober 1998We call some animals pets and other animals dinner because our culture says that some animals are part of our circle of compassion and others are not. To some extent, an animal that is destined for human consumption is exempt from the laws restricting cruelty to animals. In other words, you can do anything you want to an animal as long as you’re going to eat it. There are Filipino communities in the United States whose members carry on their cultural tradition of eating dogs, and many people who don’t think twice about the treatment of veal calves find it very objectionable to see a dog treated that way.
By David Jay Brown, Rebecca McClen NovickOctober 1998Miss Lena goes into the dressing room, closes the folding three-way mirror, gets down on her knees, and prays. I wonder if she’s really praying for customers, as she tells me, or if she’s praying for bigger things, like peace in Yugoslavia, where she is from and which she calls Yugo, or maybe an end to homelessness. It seems to me you shouldn’t waste a prayer on attracting customers.
By Jessica Anya BlauSeptember 1998April 1996And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:25
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