Europe doesn’t have all the answers, but here’s one thing that merits envy (audio, 4 minutes).
Consider the Evidence
Lane Kenworthy
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February 17, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Thanks! Thats a great story! … and its nice to see that a little but of early childhood education about food can go a long way. At $2 a meal, it can’t be that much more expensive than the lousy school lunches we used to get…
I’d favor dropping a couple of F-22s from the defense budget to engage in culinary Keynesian spending.