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As her unauthorized biography, Just Desserts , contends, Martha is an icy, horrible person who abused her (now ex-) husband, ignores her daughter, belittles her mother, sues her gardener for pennies, plagiarizes recipes from better cooks, and humiliates her staff.
First, Krugman belittles concerns about America's huge and growing merchandise trade deficits with China because the U.S. government figures I cited have kept Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China separate.
He belittles her in public and is quite a cheapskate.
A piece belittles Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner's prion theory, calling it "pathological science" that is contrary to evidence and experience.