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...threatening some of the world's best kitchens. It is the notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...
...concentrated in the worst paid, most arduous and most hazardous jobs. As of 1972, migrant workers made up 10 per cent of the work force in industrial western Europe, and much larger proportions in specific industries. It is migrants who man the assembly lines at Renault and Volvo, who dig the tunnels underneath Geneva, who make asbestos in the Ruhr--jobs which native workers avoid as much as possible...
...scared of nothing. When the UMWA struck in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring troops in to mine the coal. Lewis, who had split with CIO president and one-time close associate Philip Murray in 1940 over Roosevelt's third-term bid, said in his gravelly voice, "Let them dig coal with bayonets...
...traditional autobiographer's tools of the trade are completely lacking from this book. There are no crucial turning points, guiding-light ideals, or thematic "periods" of his life, and certainly no emotional traumas to scar the boy for life. (Skinner's only apparent reference to psychoanalysis is a dig at Freud while he describes an after school pastime--crawling into an old enclosed bookcase. "Both the isolation and the miniaturization appealed to me, but the almost fetal position was not consoling; on the contrary it was uncomfortably cramped...
...Cambridge Water Department's repairs on the hydrant, which was hit by a car sometime in January, have been underway since Monday. "We had to dig up the street to put a gate on the hydrant, so we have to shut off the water," said Frank Misener, water maintenance foreman...