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...harmony comes from the dishwasher's unique role, not only in the economy, but in the natural cycle of living and dying. The janitors of an affluent society, dishwashers feed themselves only through cleaning off the uneaten food of others. They are the highest predators of the biological chain, scavengers for people who don't hunt, gather or cook their meals. Depending on how you look at it, they occupy the highest or lowest rung in a society whose purpose is enjoyment. Their services indispensable for running restaurants, they are the vital link in the economy of hedonistic culture. Civilizations...
...basic reason for the subsidized-meal-for-everybody policy is that lawmakers thought that the schools could not earn enough to meet their share of the cost of providing free or bargain-rate meals to the needy unless they enticed into the lunchroom many middle-class or affluent children who would pay somewhat higher, though still subsidized, prices. But other influences were also at work. After all, reasoned some lawmakers, if left to their own eating habits, the children of the wealthy may become
...addicted to junk food; what better way to teach them good nutrition than to tempt them by low prices to eat a well-balanced lunch? That rationale, observes the deputy superintendent of one affluent Michigan school district, is part of a longtime trend to view the schools as social agencies. Says the educator: "We began just teaching them how to read and write. Then came athletic programs because parents couldn't be bothered to teach their kids how to run and jump. Now we are teaching them how to drive cars and setting up sex-education programs to teach...
...North High School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Mich., the clean, airy dining room looks out on a parking lot filled with students' Volkswagens, Hondas and even one classic E-type Jaguar. At 11:30 a.m., the room starts to fill with the first of three lunchtime shifts. But about half of North High's 1,600 students drive to fast-food restaurants, go home or bring their own lunches; of the remainder, 70% pass up the standard federally subsidized lunch to buy à la carte items-90? hamburgers, $1.15 bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches...
...villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy a little more handsome than he was in 1931." In 1977 Chester passed...