When President Obama first ran for office, he insisted that his candidacy would not even have been possible at any other time in history or anywhere else on earth. He banked on the possibility of the – until then – unthinkable. He knew that change, no matter how unlikely, would come if enough people believed in it, and he was right.A similarly implausible event just happened a few days ago. On July 27, 2011, McDonald’s, the biggest fast food chain in the world, took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times praising the virtues of cutting back on calories, fat and sodium for the benefit of its youngest customers. “Happy Meals,” one of the most popular...
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