Month: December 2003
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Politics Muddling Science
The Food Industry and The Food Pyramid At the time I am writing this, obesity is becoming the most significant health problem in the United States, and is about to replace smoking as the number one cause of preventable diseases. With Federal Health organizations targeting this mounting epidemic, and an informed public being the best…
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Three Dimensional Politics
Should you join the “Looney Left” or “Radical Right”? First let’s define the terms Left and Right with their synonyms in American Politics “Liberal” and “Conservative”. In a world of verbally incontinent partisans, we have lost their true meaning: Liberal – Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the…
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Great Films: Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”
The Seventh Seal Antonius Block has returned from 10 years in Crusades to the shores of Sweden, a country being ravaged by the plague. There, on the beach, he meets Death, and knows that it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess match, if he wins, Death must let him go free. Death…