Word: breakfast
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According to state officials, there is no evidence that the low-radiation doses harmed the subjects, part of the so-called Fernald Science Club. The students were administered the doses in their breakfast cereal, among other methods...
...limos pull up outside the handsome East 63rd Street town house by 8:25 each weekday morning. Within five minutes -- exactly five minutes -- half a dozen regulars at one of Manhattan's most elite breakfast clubs have assembled in a splendidly appointed room graced with a Roy Lichtenstein. Noshing bagels, they obediently await the less punctual arrival of their host and boss, Ronald Perelman, 51, the petulant billionaire-about-town whose empire includes banks, television stations and Revlon cosmetics-as well as holdings such as Coleman camping gear and Pantry Pride supermarkets that are less likely...
...meetings turned into all-night shoutfests when a Christian-right majority promoted use of a creationism textbook. Even more controversial was the board's rejection of two state grants, one offering $250,000 for a Big Brother-type program for lower-income kids, the other $400,000 for free breakfasts for poor children. One board member reportedly argued that the meals program had "more to do with welfare than education" and that children should eat breakfast with their parents. Voters reacted by mounting a recall campaign and found support among the area churches. "People get very upset when one group...
Independence Day (Knopf; 451 pages; $24) picks up Frank's story about six years later. It is July 1988, Frank is 44, and he has given up sportswriting, which he says "is at best offering a harmless way to burn up a few unpromising brain cells while someone eats breakfast cereal." He now sells houses in Haddam, a leafy New Jersey exurb that bears more than a passing resemblance to Princeton, where he and his wife were once happy. She has remarried and moved to Connecticut with the two surviving children. And the elder one, Paul, 15, has entered...
...often come to the Faculty Club before Corporation meetings," Rosovsky says. "And I'll very often see Bob Stone there having breakfast with a bunch of undergraduates. He's not a person for whom the generation gap means a great deal...