![]() ![]() They strike a deal: if Greta retrieves a long-lost magical cornucopia, the siblings go free otherwise, they’re on the witch’s menu. Hurt they’ve called her a liar, Greta leaves to save Hans and finds his captor, a Baba Yaga–like witch who eats children and has a house on chicken legs. When her last relative, her brother Hans, goes missing, she begs the king for help-but, as she has concealed Hans’ existence to keep him from an orphanage, the king thinks it’s a ploy to prevent them from helping Belladoma. ![]() ![]() Still reeling from her trauma, she can’t forgive Belladoma for using Bryre’s girls as sacrifices. Greta’s dismayed that King Oliver wants to aid the devastated Belladoma after Monstrous. Greta-one of the girls sold to Belladoma as fodder for the sea monster who threatens monthly floods in Monstrous (2015)-makes a dangerous deal with a witch to save her brother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is no wonder that twenty-six million Americans have diabetes. It is no wonder, then, that one in three adults, and one in five kids, is clinically obese. We ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, and almost none of that comes from the shakers on our table. Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and seventy pounds of sugar (about twenty-two teaspoons a day). Since that day, with the industry in pursuit of its win-at-all-costs strategy, the situation has only grown more dire. And by the time he sat down, the meeting was over. When he was done, the most powerful person in the room, the CEO of General Mills, stood up to speak, clearly annoyed. ![]() To deny the problem, he said, is to court disaster. ![]() ![]() This executive then launched into a damning PowerPoint presentation, 114 slides in all, making the case that processed food companies could not afford to sit by, idle, as children grew sick and class-action lawyers lurked. Increasingly, the salt, sugar, and fat laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be a day of reckoning unless changes were made. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it. In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world's largest processed food companies, from Coca-Cola to Nabisco, gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of NVA, under attack, low on ammunition, stacking the bodies of the dead as cover in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught. What the team didn't know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A 12-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia - where US forces were forbidden to operate. In Legend, acclaimed best-selling author Eric Blehm takes as his canvas the Vietnam War as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the US Army's 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines. ![]() |