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...fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
...This is a cafeteria, isn't it?" asked Phillips, launching into a rendition of "Send in the Clams," and singing, "Isn't it rich, isn't it queer...
...body -- line up outside waiting for a free breakfast. As the month wears on and parents' incomes run out, the line grows longer. Some children have not had dinner the night before and complain of a headache. "This is the only real meal that some of them get," says cafeteria worker Doris Tabbs -- "Grandma," as the children know her. She calls them her "babies" and often pays for treats from her own pocket...
...waited, I'd still be sitting onthe back of the bus and coming in here in the backdoor as one of the janitors and cafeteria staff,which seems to be the only place this school candiversify," continued Richardson, one of the fivestudent speakers...
During my first days in Russia, I headed for the stalovaya or Russian style cafeteria (9 rubles for soup and meat pie). The food's edible and I knew I still had a stash of granola bars for emergencies, like lunch. I was going to live like the Russians, I told myself. I was going to grab food when I saw it. When you see any-thing that looks (and smells) edible in Russia, you buy it. It won't be there tomorrow. Or the next...