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...campus as Garbageology or Le Projet du Garbage-has produced some intriguing findings. The average Tucson family throws out about 10% of the food that it buys-enough to feed about 4,000 people. Middle-income families waste more food than either the rich or poor. Low-income people eat as much meat as those who are better off but consume proportionately more vitamins, liquor and bread. During the beef shortage of 1973, householders threw away about 9% of the beef they bought, perhaps because they were purchasing unfamiliar cuts or unusually large quantities...
HUNGER. The Third World must feed itself and this will not be done by suggesting that Americans eat too much...
...book progresses, stereotypes of pale children, bearded old men and worried mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that...
Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake...
...film-maker, and even more as a homosexual who could buy any boy he chose (and did so) Pasolini exploited the working classes. The night of his death, he picked up a boy to satisfy his sexual needs, took the kid out for dinner (Pasolini didn't eat) and then drove off with him in his Alfa 2000 to a private place. Ironically, Pasolini himself helped to perpetrate the prostitution he deplored...