Surprisingly (and gratifyingly), adding a bit of soya to a hamburger may actually improve its flavour.
In America, in contrast, the same burger averages $3.71.That makes China's yuan one of the most undervalued currencies in the Big Mac index, our gratifyingly simple guide to currency misalignments, updated this week (see chart).
Smut.Unlike those fiddly telecoms and media rules, the FCC's assault on indecency has yielded gratifyingly quick results.
Lluís Quintana-Murci and his colleagues at the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, published a study in Nature Genetics that looked at which genes have undergone recent natural selection at different rates in different parts of the world, and might thus contribute to any biological differences between races.Given the fraught nature of the subject, the results are gratifyingly uncontroversial.
Gratifyingly for modern schools, this was not a party of dead white males.When it reached the Pacific, everyone voted on where to spend the winter of 1805-06, including York and Sacagawea.
Instead, many of Europe's weaker economies failed to reform and Germany accumulated gratifyingly large current-account surpluses.
Led by the stadium sound system, the fans delivered a defiant if gratifyingly tepid rendition of "Yule Neffer Vork Alone".Terry Taylor Munich* SIR – My reaction to Bagehot's football punditry was akin to watching, as they say, a game of two halves.
BRITAIN'S public finances, once gratifyingly healthy, are regaining their more familiar sickly aspect.
The self-styled Miss Pear (curvy, corseted) and Miss Melon (self-explanatory) did gratifyingly badly in their bids to enter state legislatures.
They are gratifyingly high-tech; other rich countries have them; and they allow a government committed to drastic public-spending cuts to tell at least one happy tale of improvement and investment.
Just as gratifyingly, support for Scottish independence, which usually lags behind that for the SNP, seems to be going his way too.For the first time in several years, a recent poll put backing for independence among Scots narrowly ahead of opposition to it (see chart).
