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Zealots take aim at your food
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In the wake of New York City's ban on restaurant use of trans fat,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the ban is "not going to take away
anybody's ability to go out and have the kind of food they want, in
the quantities they want. ... We are just trying to make food
safer."
That, my friends, is tyrannical double-talk. Let's look at it.
Trans fats are derived from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.
They can raise blood levels of LDL, the "bad cholesterol." According
to Elizabeth Whelan, president of American Council on Science and
Health, trans fats are about 2 percent of our daily caloric ...
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The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record
; The Anglo-Saxon Library. By Michael Lapidge. New York...110.00. ISBN 0199267227. In The Anglo-Saxon Library Michael Lapidge offers...reconstructs a credible version of the Anglo-Saxon library from these facts testifies to...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Exploring England's Anglo-Saxon Heritage
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...is gone. Brownings are as Anglo-Saxon as Anglo-Saxons get. From childhood I was...would be for killing an Anglo-Saxon. BROWNING: Seven times less...vastly less than the richer Anglo-Saxons. And the world over, at least...
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Anglo-Saxon was the olde rocke'n'rolle
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...unwillingly through their Anglo-Saxon primers, through...warlords. Unlike the Saxons (who pushed the...years. The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings...the surface, is Anglo-Saxon; so are the origins...without the Anglo- Saxon heritage that informs...maraudings of the ...
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British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
; ...recent work on early Anglo-Saxon England has been an emerging...162) For example, Anglo-Saxon minsters were often built...as the early Anglo-Saxon period. This means that...use of an older site by Anglo-Saxons might have multiple interpretations...
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Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...S0009640708001200 Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Frances Giandrea. Anglo-Saxon Studies 7. Woodbridge, U.K...that even if William quickly replaced the Anglo-Saxon episcopacy with Normans--and every Anglo...
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Making Thanes: Literature, Rhetoric and State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...attributable to the needs of the emerging Anglo-Saxon state.(2) While the Anglo-Saxons were precocious in their harnessing of vernacular...bureaucratic needs.(3) Historians of Anglo-Saxon England have taught us that these needs were...
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Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University...found in the Fontes database. An Anglo-Saxon author might as easily know a work...cite Lapidge's learning. The Anglo-Saxons--such as students leafing through...
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Invasion, settlement or political conquest: changing representations of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
; ...representations of the Anglo-Saxon arrival as an elite...assimilated with the Anglo-Saxons, adopting their cultural...by which views of the Anglo-Saxon arrival have undergone...narrative histories of the Anglo-Saxons and their arrival in...
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The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...few of the authors of the Middle Ages had an interest in the Anglo-Saxon period' ('Introduction--The Anglo Saxons: Fact and Fiction', in Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The return of the Anglo-Saxons - Grimma capitalists they be, and ylfe and orcneas--elves and ogres too.(some in France seem intent on blaming all bad things on Anglo-Saxonism)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...because whatever the Anglo-Saxons may have done for poetry...the natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon". But was Walter Bagehot an Anglo-Saxon? Was Adam Smith, come...The restoration of the Anglo-Saxons' hegemony is even odder...
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