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An example: ''Somewhere between 2 percent and 5 percent of the nation's eaters classify themselves as vegetarians; of that number, perhaps 5 percent are strict vegans.'' While I don't doubt the truth of this quote, and have no reason to believe it was simply made up, it puzzles me: 1. This isn't exactly common knowledge, is it? 2. Since the ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by haulinsacs on October 24, 2007
Re: There used to be a time . . .
By my count there are 14 articles mentioned with links to 6 of them, but your point is well taken. What I would like to see is the old format brought back, but with the addition of the current bold text labels in the body of each paragraph alerting the reader to various points of interest and/or things to avoid. If none of the articles in a given ...
Posted to In Other Magazines by haulinsacs on October 19, 2007
2 cents
From a longtime (as in from the 1990s) reader: One of the reasons I always come to Slate is for the ''In Other Magazines'' roundup. I've been giving the new format a try before whining, but I just don't like it as much. The value added of the roundup was to know that somebody had been through all (or most) of the mainstream publications and ...
Posted to In Other Magazines by lbsterling on October 17, 2007