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...officers interviewed a total of 387 people afflicted with an intestinal ailment; they finally traced the problem to cheese imported from a single French producer. Equally dogged investigation uncovered the source of an outbreak of intestinal illness in Sioux City, Iowa. After learning that all 250 people affected had eaten at one restaurant, CDC officers continued questioning until they discovered that all had ordered some kind of sliced meat. Further investigation led them to a meat slicer that was contaminated with salmonella, a particularly virulent organism that lives and multiplies in the digestive tract...
...Arabs used dynamite to kill the fish and scared most of them away," complained a young Israeli lieutenant. "But eventually they came back, and we got them with lines and nets." As he packed his bags he added somewhat wistfully, "They were the best fish I have ever eaten...
Shortly after an English couple finished a hearty breakfast in Guernsey last month, both went into comas; the fried mushrooms they had eaten were of the poisonous variety known as death cup. Flown to King's College Hospital in London, they were rushed to a section called the liver research unit, where the husband came out of his coma. But the wife's condition worsened, and doctors decided to connect her circulatory system to the only artificial "liver machine" in the world. Four days later, after being close to death from acute liver poisoning, she regained consciousness...
Lunches served in Harvard dining halls are running 10 per cent over last year, dinners are up 5 to 10 per cent and break-fasts are eaten by 5 to 7 per cent more students, Weissbecker said...
...coverage in the society sections of the News and Free Press. And the ladies labored weeks of painful planning -- passing hour after hour of busy time killing time licking stamps and addressing invitations and stamping envelopes. And they talked away more busy time worrying about what was to be eaten and whose private court to use and calling all the lucky ladies of the private courts to secure them for the tournament. And in between all the licking and stamping and talking they honed their games, scurrying around the courts as if Court had given them commitment...