Word: canteeners
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...Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare - macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts - served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing...
...most kids walked or rode to school; mothers stopped at the gate. Nowadays, parents are a feature of school life - and often for the good. They assist teachers by taking reading groups and tagging along on excursions. For no money and not much thanks, they organize the band, canteen and sports teams, sit on various committees and throw themselves into fund-raising ventures that ultimately improve the school...
...look after Kacie, now nine, and Amaya, eight, and the couple have eroded their savings defending custody in court. "I've got other grandchildren and it's hard on them because I haven't got the time to spend with them," says Lynne, 55. "I'm doing school canteen again, swimming carnivals . . . the children love to see you there, but it's exhausting the second time around...
...From a bootleg Bob Dylan song: Mollie’s in the Canteen writin’ up a magazine/I’m out on plympton usin’ the word pimpin’/A man in a trenchcoat says he wants to be scoped/better cover the fire alarm, if you want to smoke dope...
...threatened "all the time" to stop taking his medicine and could go for days without speaking. During his numerous hospital stays, his Mum or Dad was always with him, but nurses and psychologists also helped - a coordinated support staff typical of pediatric hospitals. Andrew Young, chief executive officer of CanTeen, a support organization for young people with cancer, echoes the calls of pediatric oncologists for centers or hospital wings dedicated to adolescent patients - there are eight such places in Britain, where authorities say it's too early to speculate on their impact on cure rates. To improve adolescents' chances, says...