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...Tuesday at 83[cents], having all but wiped out employee retirement accounts. The plunge in WorldCom shares has cost investors upwards of $175 billion--nearly three times what was lost in the implosion of Enron. WorldCom is not yet financially bankrupt, but it's clear that it--like a fat slice of corporate America--has been ethically bankrupt for years. We're only now getting a look at the red ink on the moral balance sheets, and new revelations of malfeasance in one company after another are sending shocks around the globe...
Prairie grass ripples along the shores of North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea, and a fat rainbow shimmers overhead. Here, if Amy Mossett has her way, an $11 million interactive museum will soon welcome visitors to the Lewis and Clark trail. Mossett, tourism director for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes, is building replica earth lodges and planning sleep-in-a-teepee packages with ethno-botany hikes, buffalo-hide painting and lectures on tribal trade networks--insect repellent included. Her message: "Come and meet the descendants of the people who provided shelter to Lewis and Clark...
Since she is in charge, we have a nine-pound chunk of buffalo hump, which Lewis and Clark considered the best part of the animal. This is because it's the fattiest part. Lewis and Clark loved the fat. "The general rule on the hunt was, the fattier the better. They were on the original Atkins diet," Leandra says. With that, she dips three fingers into a container of freshly rendered pig fat and licks them. There must be cultures where this is a mating ritual...
...splintery salt pork in a pot with some cornmeal, sage and water to make what my new friends call "Pork and Cornmeal Stew" and what I call "Fatty Fat Fat." Actually, it isn't that bad. This is the first of many demonstrations that anything made with pork fat tastes good. The corps mostly used bear grease, but pork grease, Leandra figures, is a close approximation, and I get the feeling she knows what she's talking about. By the end of the afternoon, I have eaten more lard than I have eaten altogether in my entire previous life...
...anything," I said. I was aware that Mr. Harvey was looking at me strangely. I'd had older men look at me that way since I'd lost my baby fat, but they usually didn't lose their marbles over me when I was wearing my royal blue parka and yellow elephant bell-bottoms. His glasses were small and round with gold frames, and his eyes looked out over them...