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...budget and one of the largest industry PACs in the nation. It will be a difficult souffle to concoct, since it's hard to find politicians willing to stand tall for $50 lunches. But a week before Clinton even announced his plans, the group persuaded Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich of Nevada, where expense accounts run wild, to sponsor a bill that would re-establish 100% deductibility. Hours before the President's speech, angry restaurant lobbyists were telephoning Congress...
...last year a study conducted by anthropologists William Jankowiak of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Edward Fischer of Tulane University found evidence of romantic love in at least 147 of the 166 cultures they studied. This discovery, if borne out, should pretty well wipe out the idea that love is an invention of the Western mind rather than a biological fact. Says Jankowiak: "It is, instead, a universal phenomenon, a panhuman characteristic that stretches across cultures. Societies like ours have the resources to show love through candy and flowers, but that does not mean that the lack...
...CASE OF INDIGESTION AFTER EATING FAST FOOD IS one of the hazards of modern life. Something quite different happened when severe food poisoning struck hundreds of people in Washington, Idaho and Nevada who had dined at Jack in the Box restaurants. Doctors are blaming a savage strain of E. coli bacteria first identified 10 years ago. Somehow the germs infected a shipment of hamburger meat, which was then undercooked in restaurant kitchens. Two children died, only one of whom had eaten at Jack in the Box. This suggested that the bacteria could in some cases spread to people...
...California's Sierra Nevada, skiers haven't seen anything like it in 10 years: 20 ft. of snow already this season, compared with 6 ft. by this time last year. In perennially sunstroked Los Angeles and San Diego, repeated torrents have flooded streets. Rainfall in California is 126% above average and rising, and the snowpack's water content is 170% above normal. With the wettest months still to come, some reservoirs, such as Little Rock in Antelope Valley, right, that were low just months ago are now overflowing. Still, % meteorologists refuse to concede that the six-year drought is over...
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