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Jeffrey said the council can beef up its imageby expelling representatives who fail to attendmeetings and by increasing its contact with thestudent body...
Airlines are understandably reluctant to discuss how the crisis has affected security arrangements. Typically, a Pan Am spokesman says only that security procedures at Pan Am have been "enhanced." At London's Heathrow Airport, travelers report that the beef-up can add 20 minutes to the already lengthy process of clearing security, while at New York City's Kennedy International Airport, extra police are on duty. At Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, 80 armed security police have been added to regular details, and an Interior Ministry spokesman says that "we are being vigilant toward all sensitive flights and passengers...
Each year Americans consume millions of pounds of French fries at fast-food outlets. While the potatoes are innocent enough, the leading chains have traditionally deep fried them in oil that contains beef tallow. That substance contains cholesterol and saturated fat, both considered archenemies of the cardiovascular system. Phil Sokolof of Omaha, a wealthy businessman and health-food zealot, has been leading a public campaign to urge the franchises to stop using saturated fat to cook their fries...
...When you look at what the Administration is doing compared with what it's saying, you've got to ask, 'Where's the beef?' " says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington. "There's a pattern here: the right policies keep coming up short because they're so woefully underfunded...
Word of lang's message is causing indigestion in the beef belt. Some radio stations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska have struck her songs from their playlists. "This is agriculture country," says Ken Kujawa, program director at KRES-FM in Moberly, Mo. "We don't care if k.d. lang is a vegetarian, but when she says 'Meat stinks,' that hurts everyone who lives in this area." Other singing vegetarians, notably Paul McCartney, have spoken out in lang's defense...