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Category Archives: Cities
Lawrence Solomon: Shake the salt
(May 1, 2010) The sodium-is-dangerous theory is itself a danger. Are you worried about congestive heart failure? Liver or kidney failure? Chronic fatigue? Pneumonia? Blood vessel health? Alzheimer’s or the loss of other cognitive abilities? Continue reading
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Savour the salt
(April 23, 2010) Ignore the conventional wisdom. There is no evidence that salt, something we need to survive, is bad for us. Continue reading
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Return sidewalks to private control
(April 3, 2010) Governments have systematically stripped away the character of neighbourhoods. Sidewalks in commercial districts should be privatized to retire city debt, to perk up street life and city neighbourhoods and to free city businesses from the tangle of red tape that dampens their bottom line. Continue reading
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Sorry hayseeds, my big city beats your green pasture
(October 16, 2009) The idea that country folk live a better, happier existence than we benighted slaves to the metropolis is a persistent myth of modern life. Continue reading
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Ignorant by decree
A free press is currently an alien concept throughout the Arab world. Credit: Adam Butler, The Associated Press.
Last Thursday, according to Reuters and other media outlets, Ayatollah Sistani, the undisputed leader of Iraq’s Shiites, issued a fatwa ordering his countrymen not to resist the coalition forces that had come to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime. A leading Shiite foundation in London corroborated the Reuters story.
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