Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thirds of the country's 76 million people live as rock-poor campesinos on subsistence farms in some of the worst rural and urban slums anywhere in the world. Undernourishment is widespread. Four of ten Mexicans never drink milk; two of ten never eat meat, eggs or bread. They live mainly on tortillas and refried beans. Some government solutions seem almost pitiful. Coca-Cola and other soft drinks are subsidized to sell for a pittance of 6? because their sugar content is considered nutritious...
...Gould has an eye for the unusual, indeed the bizarre, it is because, as he notes, "small items with big implications are my bread and butter." A confessed iconoclast, he likes nothing better than to take aim at major targets. Gould links that saintly man of the cloth and science, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to the infamous Piltdown hoax (the faked fossil, says Gould, was apparently a youthful prank by Teilhard), and displays irreverence for even his great hero Charles Darwin. Says Gould: "If I have one special ability, it is as a tangential thinker. I can make unusual...
Daniel P. Daley, executive director of Project Bread, a Boston humanitarian group that sponsored the walk, emphasized last week that this year's support was particularly crucial. Boston is typical of large American cities, with 40 percent of the population under the federal poverty level, he said...
This year's donations will be divided among 55 food distribution organizations, according to a Project Bread pamphlet Seventy-nine percent of the money will go to local groups, including a Cambridge organization, Shelter Inc., which feeds more than 100 people daily and houses 20 nightly...
...remaining 11 percent will cover administrative costs for Project Bread...