Word: meat
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Even food aid would be almost useless, since the primary cause of the Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
Country singer k.d. lang may sound like a cowgal, but she doesn't think like one. In a series of TV spots to be aired in the fall, the Grammy winner takes aim at the very lifeblood of cattle country. "If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch," says lang as part of a "Meat Stinks" campaign launched by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a group that opposes most uses of animals other than for companionship...
...beef belt. Some radio stations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska have struck her songs from their playlists. "This is agriculture country," says Ken Kujawa, program director at KRES-FM in Moberly, Mo. "We don't care if k.d. lang is a vegetarian, but when she says 'Meat stinks,' that hurts everyone who lives in this area." Other singing vegetarians, notably Paul McCartney, have spoken out in lang's defense...
...summer, restaurants, especially the better ones, are often booked days in advance. In Romania and Bulgaria, even a room at a hotel does not guarantee a visitor a seat in the hotel's restaurant. In Poland one may have to stand in line for barszcz (beet soup) and golabki (meat-filled rolled cabbage). In Prague if one hankers after crisp roast duck and three kinds of dumplings at a restaurant with a view of Hradcany Castle and the Vltava River, one must reserve several days ahead...
...trauma networks and began tailoring training programs for physicians interested in emergency care as a specialty. The goal was not entirely altruistic: the hope was that most accident victims would be middle class and well insured. "A lot of hospitals looked to trauma victims as $250,000 pieces of meat, and everyone wanted them," says Fred Hurtado, president of the United Paramedics of Los Angeles...