Word: meat
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Nationally, the battle may be decided at the dinner table. Health-conscious Americans are eating more of "the other white meat." Thanks in part to marketing campaigns that stress the low fat content of pork, consumption in the U.S. has edged up, from 49 lbs. per capita to 53 lbs. during the past nine years, even as beef consumption has fallen, from 79 lbs. per capita to 68 lbs. (Americans eat poultry, the current king of the table, at the per-capita rate of 73 lbs. a year.) The lofty goal of the National Pork Producers Council is to overtake...
...seen Bob Dole where he is best, in the back rooms making the childish ones act like adults, a place where they speak a different language than the verses of the campaign trail. Dole's hope is that even though Buchanan knows how to throw out the red meat, the Governors can convince people that Bob Dole is the President who will best know how to keep all the other food groups on the table...
Steve Forbes also points with pride to his Scottish background, a nation of proud, hearty people whose idea of a buffet is a slice of gray meat, a loaf of bread and four different kinds of potatoes...
...DAYS ARE REGIMENTED: BREAKFAST AT 8 A.M., chapel at 8:30. Lessons begin at 9, pause briefly for an 11:20 biscuit break, then resume. Lunch is at 1:25: a meat, two vegetables and a traditional pudding. And then, after lunch, he forays onto those famous playing fields. At Eton there are few spare moments for reflection, and it may be just as well. One can only guess the thoughts last week of the 13-year-old registered at that ancient school as William of Wales, H.R.H. Prince...
WHEN TWO CHILDREN FROM THE remote village of Mayibout, in Gabon, discovered a dead chimpanzee lying in the undergrowth near their home a few weeks ago, they were delighted. Bush meat is a delicacy throughout the rain forests of central Africa, and chimps are particularly prized for their size and scarcity. Villagers helped carry the primate back to Mayibout, where it was skinned, cooked and eaten. There the festivities ended. Within a week, nearly all those who had prepared the animal for the pot had fallen ill with a high fever. Some began bleeding from the eyes and mouth...