Last week, Montgomery County, Md., joined New York and Philadelphia in banning partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants. Washington Post columnist/blogger Marc Fisher decried this development: It’s fairly clear that trans fats are bad for you. And lots of food businesses are reacting to the widespread public opposition to trans fats by working on new recipes [...]
One last bit of Paul Wolfowitz fun, from an interview in this morning’s Volkskrant with Herman Wijffels, the Dutch executive director at the World Bank who led the internal commission that investigated the Wolfowitz scandal. (And yes, I too find the repeated involvement of Netherlanders in this mess–former World Bank ethics chief Ad Melkert is [...]
