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...need a Coke." Beverage in hand, he sat quietly in an adjoining room, munching a cheese sandwich and chocolate-chip cookies that he had brought from home. An equally exhausted Dr. Robert Jarvik, who designed the artificial heart, which is called the Jarvik-7, wandered down to the cafeteria for a soft drink and chatted with reporters. DeVries' and Jarvik's mentor, Dr. Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney and heads Utah's artificial-organs program, celebrated the operation's completion at home with champagne...
GREENHELD--Greenheld school officials are studying a plan to ofter low-cost weekday lunches at the high school cafeteria to the unempolyed...
...Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School in Lexington, Mass., part of the school's cafeteria space was converted this fall to a McDonald's restaurant, complete with golden arches. Culinary-arts students study the fast-food business and spend time in the kitchen. They also learn about competition, since the other half of the school cafeteria serves subsidized school lunches. After graduation, students who finish the fast-food management training program will be given preferential consideration for jobs by McDonald...
...Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three semi-autobiographical books and the inspiration for a movie (Duffy of San Quentin), he campaigned ceaselessly against capital punishment, after presiding over 90 executions. "The death penalty," he insisted, "never deterred murder before and never will...
...grapple with such peers as Muffy Tepperman, the perennially earnest go-getter who organizes a dance so the class can adopt a starving Guatemalan child; Jennifer DeNuccio, a prototypical Valley Girl ("Like ... pass me out the door"); and a drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise...