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A few weeks ago, I shared my dirtiest picky-eating secrets and listed the foods I refuse to try — from grapefruit to beans. I asked readers to tell me about their finicky ways. It turns out I'm not the only one out there. Read what they said. Mushrooms? No way. Kevin McDermott, Waterbury I wouldn't eat a banana on a dare. In the late '60s, one of our neighbors had visitors from Delaware and they introduced all the kids to baked bananas. Yum! You cannot even imagine the smell of oozing nanner guts in the oven. I can actually get...

A six-figure legal battle between a family of Lithuanian asylum seekers and a London council was essentially a row over a flight of stairs. The Anufrijeva family claimed that a steep staircase in a flat on a south London estate infringed their human rights by preventing their infirm grandmother from playing a full part in family life. The battle was fought by an army of lawyers at a cost of more than £100,000 before some of the most senior judges in the country. One of the judges, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, spoke of the "unconscionably high" costs the...