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...Carte-brand foods from Kraft. They are single-serving main dishes, like beef burgundy or creamed chicken, which are neither frozen nor canned but packed and vacuum-sealed in a new kind of aluminum and plastic pouch that can be stored on a shelf, popped into boiling water and eaten in five minutes. Kraft publicity identifies the market as: "Dual income families, working single parents and single people who lead active lives." Kraft is pleased with test-market results of a la Carte in half a dozen cities, and the product will soon be sold nationally...
Then came the '70s, the tear-jerker sympathy decade for films, and everybody had cancer or leukemia or was eaten by a shark. Don't you feel sorry for Me? was the question they asked. The whole family would go to these movies and on the way back Mom and Dad would say we are lucky to have healthy bodies and a hibachi. (Unlike in the 60's, it was o.k. to live in the suburbs again...
...April or May, when the caterpillars first emerge from their eggs. As they finish off one tree, they swing easily to another on silken threads they secrete. Their vagabond life accounts for the name gypsy. Millions can infest a small wooded patch. As they crunch, dropping excrement and half-eaten leaves, they sound like steady rain. Some homeowners complain that the noise actually keeps them awake. The caterpillars crawl up walls, spread over driveways, drop into plates and glasses at backyard barbecues. Last month Massachusetts officials got a call from a badly flustered woman. So many caterpillars had swarmed across...
...death, Trerice arranged a private autopsy. It revealed that Paul had been handcuffed shortly before his death, something that was not mentioned in the Navy's report. Trerice was further disturbed when a Ranger cook reportedly contradicted the official story that Paul had eaten breakfast the morning of his death. Though the Navy insists it is not so, Trerice began to wonder if his son had eaten anything more than bread and water the last two days of his life. Last month Trerice sued the Navy for $4.1 million over his son's death and alleged mishandling...
...kidding." Heather said. "I haven't slept in two days, and I haven't eaten all day. Give me the whiskey...