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...stayed there. At 5 a.m. everyone gets up, bathes, and begs for alms at houses throughout the city. Between 6 and 6:30, breakfast, which consists of polished rice, is served in a large hall where everyone sits on the stone floor while eating. Only one other meal is eaten for the rest of the day. It also consists of rice and must be taken before noon; between noon and the next morning nothing can be eaten...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Hitchhiking Through Nixon's Laos | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

...most mileage for my advertising dollar." It remains to be seen whether the Playboy recruits-if they persist in their interest-will gladly embrace one of the most austere of priestly disciplines: celibacy. ¶ For observant Jews, the term kosher applies not only to what foods may be eaten and when, but to the methods used in the preparation of food and the slaughter of animals. Kashrut (dietary law) dictates that an acceptable animal, such as a cow or lamb, must be conscious and must be quickly slashed across the throat by a sharp instrument held in the steady hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...encompasses a loose alliance of fluctuating factions numbering anywhere from nine to twelve. Historically, every time a new Christian Democratic leader has emerged, he has been chewed up by piranha-like subordinates who inexplicably have sought to rise to the top, where they knew that they too would be eaten in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Belated Best Man | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...complete the crowning in their own way, the Zulus held another celebration, attended by 50,000 tribesmen and only two whites -a government administrator and an expert on their history and culture. For that weekend-long occasion, 105 oxen, 50 antelopes, seven buffaloes and 20 wildebeests were slaughtered and eaten, washed down with thousands of gallons of tshwala, a native beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Last Zulu War | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...White House aides came up to me a couple days ago and said he had helped us out on corn prices. I thought maybe he had set aside another million acres. Then he told me he had eaten a couple of ears for dinner the night before. He didn't even realize that's a different kind of corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Frustrations of a Rural Republican | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

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