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...major civil rights decision, a Boston federal appeals court ruled that job discrimination against severely obese people can violate federal disabilities laws. The ruling was a victory for 320-lb. Bonnie Cook, who, despite impeccable credentials, was refused a job as an attendant at a mental- health center because of her weight...
Individual lives are similarly transformed. More than a million Chinese have become dakuan, or dollar millionaires, and as much as 5% of the population is affluent by Chinese standards. In 1978 Li Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit...
Preparing dinner for that many people isn't easy, especially when all you have is the Canaday kitchen. Plus, what with women outnumbering the men in our party by 2-to-1--and this being the '90s, the decade when women no longer know how to cook and clean, and men are wedded to bachelorhood--the few men in attendance were the only ones who knew how to do much more than boil water...
...Square Star Market. On the return trip on the T, two of us carried back a 22-pound turkey, three boxes of Stove Top stuffing, two boxes of instant mashed potatoes, a head of lettuce, four liters of soft drinks, plus tomatoes, cucumbers, a turkey baster, a pan to cook the turkey, salt, pepper and assorted herbs and spices...
...least two minutes, until it is cold to the touch, before using it. That way you're using water from the main lines under the street, which do not contain lead. (Apartment dwellers can't do this if their building's plumbing system is huge). Don't cook with water coming from the hot ; water tap; it draws more lead from pipes than cold water does...