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Truffles were prized in Italy as an Epicurean delight as far back as the Roman gourmand Apicius' legendary banquet in 20 A.D., and in certain villages life has long revolved around the aromatic fungus. In San Giovanni d'Asso, located on a Tuscan hilltop and surrounded by the rolling clay slopes of the Crete Senesi, truffles are truly a village affair: there are 50 truffle hunters out of a population of 350, according to Mayor Michele Boscagli. From September to December they hunt for the delicacy, feast on a portion of their bag, and sell the rest to local merchants...
What is even more shocking than tobacco companies concocting data, is that the restaurant associations that oppose smoking restrictions are often in the pay of Big Tobacco itself. A study conducted by University of California at San Francisco found that eight national and over 60 regional restaurant asso ciations had close links to Big Tobacco, including the New York Tavern and Restaurant Association, which received funding from the tobacco industry throughout the 1990s. Many of these associations advocated an “accommodation” policy, where restaurants would designate separate smoking and non-smoking areas. This type of partial...
...Tarek Farouki, Asso, Sports Editor Harvard 26 Cornell...
...Tarek Farould, Asso. Sports Editor...
Mitterrand has promised to punish those found responsible, and there is wide speculation that among them will be Defense Minister Charles Hernu, one of Mitterrand's close friends and asso ciates. Hernu, whose ministry has responsibility for the security agency, told journalists last week that his "conscience is clear." He was not, he later told intimates, "even dreaming of the possibility of resigning...