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...concentrated on the end product of food so long when we should be looking at how to stop it from being contaminated in the first place," said Lester M. Crawford, director of the Center for Food and Nutritional Quality at Georgetown University in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Fight Salmonella, E. coli | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...anything were to go beyond that, the Cambridge Police Department [CPD] would be prepared," said Lester J. Sullivan, a department sergeant...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tight Security Planned For Visits | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...Lester is crazy about his granddaughter La-Kia, 10. "She's such a little lady," he crows. That's why he was so upset last year when she started attending Vare Middle School in South Philadelphia. It was bad enough that Vare is known for dismal test-score performance. What was worse was how the culture of the streets had seeped inside. La-Kia had been there only a few days when four girls tried to pick a fight with her. When he heard that, says Lester, "I nearly had 10 bypasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY'LL VOUCH FOR THAT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...insistence, La-Kia was rushed to the more peaceable hallways of St. Thomas Aquinas, a parochial school costing $1,400 a year. Because La-Kia's mother Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY'LL VOUCH FOR THAT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...impersonation," insists Thompson. "My character isn't Hillary; it's a composite of various people." "I'm not imitating anyone," contends Thornton, who went easy on the Cajun histrionics and even grew a close-cropped beard to differentiate himself from the jumpy, clean-shaven Carville. Adrian Lester, the young British actor whose pivotal role as narrator Henry Burton contains elements of Ron Brown and adviser George Stephanopoulos, says he's "just done a little bit of reading on Ron Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING A BLOCKBUSTER TO THE 21ST CENTURY | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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