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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...agree on how to get Americans to eat healthier and eat less. While representatives of both the food industry and our federal government emphasized offering ?consumer choice? and adding healthier options to our grocery stores and restaurant menus, many others feel that expanding the offerings on the national buffet is not the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the Summit | 6/5/2004 | See Source »

...pranced and greeted visitors. Towering above the busy slot machines, a 33-m-wide video screen flashed fireworks and ocean sunsets. Waiters in traditional Chinese peasant hats scurried between the tables with free cups of tea. A jazz band jammed at the casino bar. At the "888 Las Vegas Buffet," gamblers stuffed themselves silly with all-you-can-eat sushi, pasta and Indian curries for $17 a head?a bargain by local standards. Behind wooden doors, big spenders, or "whales" in Vegas lingo, enjoyed quiet VIP rooms with plush maroon chairs and lofty windows where minimum bets can reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macau's Big Score | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

It’s a warm October evening in Washington, D.C., and some of the nation’s top biological researchers mingle in the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel over drinks and a dinner buffet...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Science, Red Tape Follows Greenbacks | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

...ladies were stumped. Cheryl Spangler, Valeria Borunda-Jameson and Susan Puckett, three college-admissions workers on a training visit to Florence, Ky., had sauntered into a local barbecue joint called Chung Kiwha. But instead of sauce-slathered mutton served up from the kitchen, they saw a buffet of uncooked meats and vegetables. Instead of knives and forks, they were given large scissors, chopsticks and metal tongs. No candle flickered at their table, but a bucket of fiery wood charcoal hissed in the tabletop grill pit. Chung Kiwha served barbecue, all right--cook-it-yourself Korean barbecue. "I didn't realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have It Your Way | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...Thanksgiving table is arguably the biggest buffet of exoneration for the fundamentalists trying to enshrine discrimination in our Constitution and push the social discourse ever rightward. This past summer, I worked in the State House as a legislative intern. At one intern forum, I asked Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan, about equal rights in the state, and he too went off on some tangent about the fourth Thursday in November. Apparently, self-congratulation and the coveted moral high ground come ready-made with the stuffing and string bean casserole. If you give some polite face time...

Author: By Jared M. Seeger, | Title: Tainted Love? | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

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