Christmas musings mix humor with office and holiday woes
Ottawa Herald weekend notebook blends cold weather musings with office tales. A boss dodges vacation before year end as changes loom on Page 2. Readers get TV listings return and Kilpatrick column cut. Santa letters and a six-figure Christmas list spark wit about costs and priorities.
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Diet And Exercise Advice For Weight Loss
Readers ask if dieting alone works and how to combine dieting with activity. Dr Donahue explains that dieting can work, but adding moderate exercise accelerates weight loss, improves muscle tone, heart and lung health, and can reduce appetite. He notes steady, 15 minute workouts burn fat and sugar in bursts don’t. A second reader questions tanning safety.
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A Conservative View On Safire On Language
Kilpatrick praises William Safire's On Language as an engaging, playful collection of NYT essays and reader letters. He notes Safire's pet peeves on usage such as fewer versus less, the misuse of literally, and singular media, while approving his stance on many linguistic distinctions and neologisms.
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World grain use rising prompts U S to boost output
Kansas City Board of Trade analysis notes that global feed grain use in 1980 81 will exceed production by about 33 million metric tons driving world stocks down to 34 million. U S exports projected at a record 74 million metric tons and corn at 2 550 billion bushels. Carryover stocks seen at 21 million metric tons for next year with corn alone around 600 million bushels.
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