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...clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember when a kid could hitchhike in America, and older guys would see that your clothes were clean and you stood up straight...
...noted some other uninvited guests: an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen. "It's bad enough that we have to think about safety when we send our kids to school," says Neketa Lacayo, who still quizzes her daughter Naiah McGruder, 9, nightly about what she eats in the school cafeteria. "When this happened, I wondered, Was [her lunch] something else I had to worry about...
...relish over returning to power. Sen. Pat Roberts, who's in line to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee and who's eager to have that post, phoned Lott shortly after Cheney's call to smooze. The two men set up a lunch in the Dirksen Senate Office Building cafeteria that day. Lott planned to give Roberts the post, but he decided that when he met Roberts for lunch, the first words out of his mouth would be: "I'm going to make you chairman of the Ethics Committee" a panel most members detest serving on, much less heading. Then...
McNitt said such mislabeling of entire dishes typically occurs in areas of the cafeteria where many different food types are crammed together in a tight place, such as the dressing area of the salad...
...future doctors long before they can write prescriptions. Instead of chowing down on a free sales-pitch sandwich, students--who are usually buried in debt and years away from making a salary--are being asked to brown-bag it. A tall order, but it beats the hospital cafeteria...