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Coventry was burned alive for possessing a copy of the Lord's Prayer in English. In 1531 a man was sent to the stake for eating meat on Friday. In 1556 "three silly women of the Isle of Garnsey" were burned for failing to attend church with sufficient regularity...
...cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking milk from there." Just to be on the safe side, the U.S. dug up 1,500 cubic yards of contaminated topsoil and tomato plants and made plans to ship them back to a radioactive-waste dump in Aiken, S.C., for diplomatic burial...
...running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
Clark, an exponent of a free market economy who once ran for the House of Commons as a Laborite, explained to a Kirkland House audience that a large foreign trade would enable the African nations to exchange agricultural products like meat, grain, hemp, and simple textiles for vitally needed manufactured articles plus fertilizers they cannot now produce...
...area immediately around the fireplaces is clear of debris, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants of the house slept near the fires on animal skins. There are several large flat stones scattered about, which may have been used as seats or for carving meat. The most important thing, says De Lumley, "is not so much the bones and the tools found on a prehistoric site as their relative positioning." From this, it is possible to learn a great deal about the life and the social habits of prehistoric...