Well, that’s a part of revision called editing.

The goal is ambitious. The challenges are real.

The calorie trends of the past few years are impossible to sustain without them.

distribution strengths to promote smaller-portion sizes, water, and no- and lower-calorie beverage options.

the soft drink companies are out to counter this trend. The best way to look at the new campaign is as a sales theme. Companies can promote

Diet drinks are a plus for beverage makers because some consumers drink more than they would sugary soft drinks, assuming that it won't affect their waistlines.

The American Beverage Association announced last week that it wants to reduce calorie intake from beverages by 20% over the next 11 years. It will do so through smaller packages and by encouraging people to drink diet sodas, water and other other beverages that have fewer calories

changed voice, though not a new one.

thousands of them, burdening the trees, until a roar of squawks, each piercing, filed the dusk.

there were thousands of starlings in the bare oaks lining the road.

So he fondled those buckeyes as if they were charms, carrying them with him when our family moved from Ohio at the end of my childhood, bearing them to new homes in Louisiana, then Oklahoma, Ontario, and Mississippi, carrying them still on his final day when pain a thousand times fiercer than arthritis gripped his heart.

I keep in a wooden box on my desk the two buckeyes that were in his pocket when he died.

He would flex his hands and say, “I do so far.”

They lie side by side in my lap, their palms turned up as if to catch this fleeing moment as it falls away.

As a young man my father had been a drapery salesman in a department store and his hands were ever after at their best when smoothing fabric for display-the left one holding a piece of cloth un

since I entered my fifties I have begun to see my father's hands out at the ends of my arms.

Snowfrostingtheroofs.

Thishurtmygrandfather’sfeelings.

Although most Americans want Evolution to be taught in the public schools, most are not sure that the theory, as they understand it, is fully accurate or proven.

it is not primarily religion behind their opinions.

Although most Americans want Evolution to be taught in the public schools, most are not sure that the theory, as they understand it, is fully accurate or proven.

it is also clear that their knowledge about Evolution and Creationism is neither deep nor detailed.

Evolution from its new state science standards. Other states may follow suit. In other areas, the issue surfaces in other ways. In Rochester, New York, for example, a controversy has erupted over attempts to create a publicly funded charter school that will reportedly include the teaching of creationism in its science classes.

For decades, there has been an ongoing debate in the United States regarding how public schools can best teach about the origins and development of human beings.

By these lights, installing foot baths in the University of Michigan’s washrooms is a permissible, dual-use accommodation. It would be different if Michigan were planning to build ornate ablution fountains like those outside mosques.

The most convincing interpretation of our constitutional tradition is that the government may not engage in or pay for conduct that is inherently religious but may accommodate religion when the steps taken to do so are not inherently religious in themselves.

The source of the confusion is the mistaken notion that the categories “religious” and “secular” are strictly binary, like an on-off switch.

Americans have been debating the place of God in schools almost uninterruptedly since public education got its start in the country nearly two centuries ago.

In each of these cases, education officials seem to be making an effort to accommodate a religious community.

But when you look at an issue like, can a woman get her birth control pills because of someone's religious bias and religious beliefs, that's an entirely differe

It was a Celine Dion song, "The Prayer."

It felt like I was forced to declare my religion.

We sat down, closed the door. And we got into a discussion of, he wanted me to know where he was coming from. And so he reached around off of his bookshelf and pulled a Bible off

couldn't use the facili

I believe that my generation will see better things, too – that we will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated; when the Middle East will find peace and Africa grain, and the Cubs win the World Series – proba

“There will be a pandemic that kills millions, a devastating energy crisis, a horrible worldwide depression and a nuclear explosion set off in anger.”

Instead, he was upset about the world his generation is turning over to mine, a world he fears has a dark and difficult future – if it has a future at all. He sounded like this:

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do

She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.

Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy — you can’t prove a negative, so there’s no work to do.

Personally, Iwish all these people would go suck their Birkenstocks.

Human targets? What's tag? What's a snowball fight? What's aclose play at second?

Not to alarm you, but America is going softer than left-outbutter.

Laemmli opens with an anecdote from the romantic heyday of ballet. In the 1840s, when Marie Taglioni went on pointe for a few seconds in La Sylphide, her momentary weightlessness became an icon of the transcendent power of ballet.

The first dancer who rose en pointe did so with the aid of an invention by Charles Didelot in the 19th century. Audiences went wild over this and choreographers looked for ways they could put more pointe work into their pieces. As the desire to go en pointe without  wires increased, so did the emphassis on technical skill. The first documented person to rise en pointe  for the entire length of a ballet without the aid of wires was Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide, a ballet written for her by her father. Her shoes were molded satin slippers with soles of  oak tanned leather and the sides and toes were darned to help hold there shape. They had no boxing and no shank. The only support came from some extra stitching around where the platform would be in a modern pointe shoe.                                                                                                                                      

"the beginning of the nineteenth century," or "toward 1820"