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Brinker no longer makes regular deliveries herself. Too many people have died, and it is agony to make new friends and lose them so inevitably. Still, if a client calls late to say he did not get his meal, Brinker will go into the kitchen, cook it and deliver it. When money runs short she uses her own. Sometime this year Open Hand will move to a new kitchen capable of producing 8,000 meals a day. "The money is really, really tight," confides chef Chris Medina. "In the past couple of months, we've been on the verge...
...such freedom can be high not only for the individual cyclist but for society at large. A study of 105 bike-accident victims hospitalized in Seattle during 1985 found that of the $2.7 million they incurred in medical bills, 63% was paid for out of public funds. Says John Cook of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "This is a social issue. When you have a seriously brain-injured person...
...this week, the host asked the family leaders to give the most popular responses to a very simple question: "Name something a husband expects his wife to do." From the 100 men surveyed by the game show, only five answers made it up on the board: 64 men answered "cook;" nine said "clean the house;" eight said "do the laundry;" six said "make love" and four said "do the dishes...
This information presents certain problems. First of all, would ten times more men really expect their wives to cook as to make love? Well, a group of 100 men is small enough that it may be subject to sampling errors. A larger group would certainly have said "make love" more frequently and would likely have included such answers as "replace Mom," "iron my shirts" and "have large litters...
...course, the problem may lie in the way that Family Feud adds. Those surveyed were counted according to their first response. A pretty substantial number of men might have said, "Cook. Well, half the time--the other half I'll do it," or "Make love. Then go to the office and help support the family while I stay at home with the kids." Another possible explanation is a sampling error. It could be that the 100 men who were surveyed by Family Feud all happened to be chauvinists...