Word: ice-cream
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...jogging shoes, rap records and videocassettes. They have had their fill of rhetoric and bureaucracy, of long lines for buses and hamburguesas, the Cuban version of an American favorite, made with pork. The most visible rebels, known as los freekiss (freakies), hang out in the park around Coppelia ice-cream parlor, flaunting long hair and T shirts splashed with the logos of heavy-metal bands. But even government-approved bands like Carlos Varela sing openly of Cuba's woes. "The inequities in society frustrate the young. I couldn't make a popular song about how great things are here...
...shadows caused by the light fixtures. The face, they swore, was that of Laura Arroyo, 9, a local girl who was abducted and murdered last month. Gawkers began gathering in twos and threes, then in ever larger throngs. One evening last week, an estimated 25,000 assembled amid ice-cream and food vendors, causing a two-mile-long traffic jam. One hustling entrepreneur took over a vacant lot and charged $3 a car for parking...
Deny a child an ice-cream cone? Take away those glazed doughnuts? Or that double cheeseburger, fries and milk shake? It sounds cruel and downright un- American. Everyone knows that adults should watch their diets and cholesterol levels, but is it really necessary for junk-food-loving youngsters to do the same...
...fats and cholesterol. It is not necessary to cut out these treats altogether, but simple prudence calls for greater moderation. The main problem is that switching to healthier foods is not easy when parents are often such poor role models. Mom and Dad will have to remove those ice-cream cones from their own mouths before they take one out of their child...
...always, some people drown their troubles in alcohol. Others turn to chocolate bars, ice-cream cones or platters of rich food. In the words of Columbia University psychiatrist Jack Gorman, "When things are lousy anyway, who cares about cholesterol?" Many individuals become violent and abusive, usually to those closest at hand. At the House of Ruth, a Washington shelter for battered women, deputy director Dan Byrne reports that the men who are doing the hitting are talking more and more about the economic pressures they feel...