We don’t get the local paper, we get our news through Yahoo (Donna) and Google (Brian.) On the Google News page there are the main stories on the left and in the right hand column there are headlines from various news outlets. These headlines get tailored to your tastes, both content and source, after time and to fill up tonight’s post I will give you excerpts, and then a link to, from 4 New York Times articles that I have interesting in the last week.
1) A more accurate description than ?100 percent natural whole-grain oats,? ?plump raisins,? ?sweet cranberries? and ?crisp fresh apples? would be ?oats, sugar, sweetened dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients you would never keep in your kitchen.? – How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong
2) As anybody who has ever worked in any institution ? private or public ? knows, one of the primary ways employee effectiveness is judged is the performance review. And nothing could be less fair than that. – Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You
3) Consider what?s happened with lighting over the past three centuries. As people have switched from candles to oil-powered lamps to incandescent bulbs and beyond, the amount of energy needed to produce a unit of light has plummeted. Yet people have found so many new places to light that today we spend the same proportion of our income on light as our much poorer ancestors did in 1700… – When Energy Efficiency Sullies the Environment
4) The affected men were, in each case, those who?d trained the longest and hardest. Spending more years exercising strenuously or completing more marathon or ultramarathon races was, in this study, associated with a greater likelihood of heart damage. – When Exercise Is Too Much of a Good Thing
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 963