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To: Lane3 who wrote (80399)	2/11/2004 2:55:25 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

:-) I'm a happy camper. I just love my dark chocolate wrapped around marzipan- and almonds, as we all know, are also VERY good for you. :-)

To: Lane3 who wrote (80399)	2/11/2004 4:44:36 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

chemicals, called flavanols, what's the difference between flavanols and flavonoids, which is what I thought Chocolate had. Different names for the same thing? Different things?

To: Lane3 who wrote (80399)	2/11/2004 4:55:27 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Sadly, they don't seem to just sell Cocoavia pproducts to try, but want you to sign up for a perpetual delivery program. Which they claim you can cancel at any time, but i've had trouble with those offer before. Too bad you can't just order a dozen bars to try out.

To: Lane3 who wrote (80399)	2/11/2004 5:09:10 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

What if Bush was a girl?! wotch.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (80399)	2/11/2004 5:32:05 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I had, of course, been aware of the controversy about the intellectual abuse of conservative students in some colleges and universities, but I hadn't been aware that there were stirrings of legisltive efforts to address it in the Academic Bill of Rights. chronicle.com I have some doubts about this approach. But I also have doubts about the response of the AAUP. Which is at: aaup.org First of all, the use of "purporting" in the statement "Based upon data purporting to show that Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans in faculty positions..." is ingenuous. The research is compelling -- nay, overwhelming -- that registered Democrats vastly outnumber registered Republicans in the faculties of most of American colleges and universities. (There are a few exceptions, such as Oral Roberts University.) But would they say, if they were addressing gender pay inequities, "Based upon data purporting to show that women earn less then men in equivalent positions..."? Of course not. They would assert the findings as fact and move on. So the "purportedly" starts out showing their prejudice. Then they say that "Committee A endorses this principle, which we shall call the "principle of neutrality," ...", and goes on to say "There are already mechanisms in place that protect this principle, and they work well." Oh? They are saying that mechanisms to balance political diversity are working well? That's would have been like saying in 1950, when fewer than 1% of college and university professors were minorities, that we support racial equality in hiring, but we don't need to make any special efforts to hire minorities because the present system is working well. If the system were working well, we wouldn't have the large disparities we do. Isn't it amazing how intellectually dishonest academics can be when they're trying to protect their liberal turf?