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Supermarkets say: Please don’t buy the dreck we sell

I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was in a Minneapolis branch of Byerly’s, an upscale grocery chain in Minnesota. Scanning the aisles for a small extravagance for my dinner hosts, I noticed that the shelf labels included not just the price-per-unit, which I’m used to, but little blue and white linked hexagons marked on a scale of 1 to 100 – a “NuVal” score.

McCain accepts nomination, offers little new on Israel, Iran

John McCain closed out the Republican convention Thursday night with a speech in which he defended traditional GOP policy points, while criticizing his party\’s recent performance and pledging to work with lawmakers across the aisle.

Allies and foes scrape through Palin bio for Jewish material

Palin is likeable enough that she got props from Ethan Berkowitz, the Jewish former minority leader in the Alaska House of Representatives who appears poised to become the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives since Nick Begich disappeared in a snowstorm in 1972.

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