Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Person Two: "Yea, I know what you mean. I have work too. See, I was caught in a meat cleaver this weekend and my body was ravaged beyond human recognition, leaving me limbless and very sad. The department has decided not to give me any extensions so I have to write my thesis, which is due in 10 minutes and I haven't started, in blood...
...election dominated by negative advertising, the most effective counterattack came in South Dakota, where Democrat Tom Daschle turned Republican Senator James Abdnor's ads against him. When we last tuned in, Abdnor was running a commercial linking Daschle to Actress Jane Fonda, who, the ad incorrectly claimed, eschewed red meat -- not a trifling charge in a state where beef is a leading farm product. During the three weeks that the ad aired, Abdnor made up about ten points in the polls. Then Daschle decided to attack the attack with an ad showing a bunch of cigar-smoking pols discussing ways...
...humdrum (how to pack a child's lunch). She often draws ideas from readers' letters, which she answers herself. "I see what they are and are not understanding," she says. One woman complained that her cholesterol level was not going down even though she had stopped eating red meat; it turned out all she had done was cook the same amount of meat until it was brown. Brody brings her lessons home. In print she promotes a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fats, sugar and salt. The pantry of the comfortable Brooklyn brownstone she shares with Husband Richard...
...Senator James Abdnor found himself trailing telegenic Democrat Tom Daschle by nine points, he unleashed a barrage of TV spots charging that his rival had consorted at a congressional hearing with Fonda, conservative America's most reviled radical. Fonda, Abdnor pointed out, had urged people not to eat red meat; beef and pork are among South Dakota's biggest farm products. The upshot: Abdnor has now pulled slightly ahead...
...human papillomavirus (HPV) family is a large one, including 46 types capable of causing everything from common plantar warts (HPV-1 and 4) to choking growths in the throat (HPV-11) to a bizarre warty rash found almost exclusively on the hands of butchers and meat handlers (HPV-7). So far, six types of HPV, all responsible for benign genital lesions, have also been associated with malignant cervical growths. Says Dr. Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg: "At least 80% of all cervical cancers are linked to papilloma...