Word: milke
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...line against disaster, its biggest problems remain largely unsolved. Two-thirds of the country's 76 million people live as rock-poor campesinos on subsistence farms in some of the worst rural and urban slums anywhere in the world. Undernourishment is widespread. Four of ten Mexicans never drink milk; two of ten never eat meat, eggs or bread. They live mainly on tortillas and refried beans. Some government solutions seem almost pitiful. Coca-Cola and other soft drinks are subsidized to sell for a pittance of 6? because their sugar content is considered nutritious...
Constructed primarily of several thin layers of polyethylene, foil and paper, the containers can keep milk and other liquids fresh for several months without refrigeration. Reason: the airtight packaging seals in its sterilized contents. That has been a crucial marketing aid in countries where transportation and refrigeration are limited...
More than 25 billion aseptically packaged liquid units were sold worldwide last year. While these packages have long been popular in Europe and Asia, however, they were slow to catch on in the U.S. One California company tried marketing milk and juice in similar containers in the U.S. during the '60s, but consumers did not like them because they were too hard to open. But by 1981, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an improved aseptics packaging method for commercial use, a container with a straw attached, which made opening and drinking easier, had been developed...
...Socialist government holds that he machines are a source of endless trouble. Officials say gangsters supply most of the slots to bar owners and then rake off half of the take. Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who first proposed the ban, alls the machines "the milk cow of the underworld...
...involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking...