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Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
Global Gluttony
Our Aug. 11 cover story on obesity around the world sparked letters of concern. One reader offered health tips with optimism: "Obesity can be fought." Another worried that the countries have developed a new competition, "a rat race of appetites."
The World's Waistlines
Your Aug. 11 cover story, "Fat World," was really shocking. It completely changed my stereotypical thinking that obesity is a problem only in developed and rich countries. As you point out, the problem is now spreading to developing regions like Africa and India. It seems as though having too much can be as dangerous as having too little, as both overeating and ...
- Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Gledhill, Chris October 1, 2000 700+ words
Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language...1997. xxiii + 256 pp. $42.50. Esperanto is one of the best-known examples of...international communication. The status of Esperanto as a living language can be easily demonstrated...
- Esperanto, created more than 100 years ago as a universal language, has set few...
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 9, 2003 700+ words
...then the answer is no, you don't speak Esperanto. If you don't even know what Esperanto is, much less speak it, then let us introduce...be easy to learn and politically neutral, Esperanto has been promoted as an international auxiliary...
- Esperanto, created more than 100 years ago as a universal language, has set few...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Chin, Richard September 29, 2003 700+ words
...then the answer is no, you don't speak Esperanto. If you don't even know what Esperanto is, much less speak it, then let us introduce...be easy to learn and politically neutral, Esperanto has been promoted as an international auxiliary...
- ESPERANTO VIVAS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS RODNEY DANGERFIELD OF TONGUES IS A...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Daniel Golden, Globe Staff October 18, 1987 700+ words
...One's first impulse is to dismiss Esperanto as a wacky but harmless cause, like...language, and most of them, according to Esperanto teacher David Jordan, are "nerdy teen...Defense Department computers. Jokes about Esperanto leap to mind: It's the USA Today of...
- Speaking Up for Esperanto.
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Brownell, Ginanne Martinez, Dalia August 11, 2003 700+ words
Over the years, Esperanto enthusiasts have grown thick skins...threatened by it, he expelled Iraq's only Esperanto teacher during his tyrannical regime...Communist Hungary at the 1946 World Esperanto Congress in Switzerland. To hear a...
- Slim chance Esperanto will ever be universal language.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schogol, Marc January 3, 2003 700+ words
...our computer keyboard does not speak Esperanto _ which, by now, was supposed to have...especially due to the Internet. So while Esperanto still exists and is spoken by two million...said Joseph F. Conroy, head of the Esperanto Society of Philadelphia, Ludvig Zamenhof...
- Slim chance Esperanto will ever be universal language.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 2, 2003 700+ words
...our computer keyboard does not speak Esperanto _ which, by now, was supposed to have...especially due to the Internet. So while Esperanto still exists and is spoken by two million...said Joseph F. Conroy, head of the Esperanto Society of Philadelphia, Ludvig Zamenhof...
- Fundamentals of Esperanto.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Reddy, Srikanth July 1, 2003 700+ words
Fundamentals of Esperanto The grammatical rules of this language...friend is here. A new book appears in Esperanto every week. Radio stations in Europe...Russia & Brazil broadcast in Esperanto, as does Radio Vatican. In 1954...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)