Word: pecans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about time. Sadly, however, a growing number of parents feel compelled to opt out of public schools altogether: more than 700,000 children are educated at home, up from about 12,500 in the late 1970s. No small number of them are taught by Kenneth and Julie McKim of Pecan Gap, Texas, who started educating their 13 children at home more than a decade ago. Says Julie: ``We wanted our children to be protected before they had to face someone who was offering them drugs or before they had to make moral choices we would rather our children not make...
...walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen in a free and fair election. He was. Supporting him is therefore an American interest. It isn't an interest that justifies war, but it does justify rigorous sanctions...
...death. To reaffirm his mettle as he ran for the White House, Clinton rushed home from New Hampshire to deny a condemned murderer's clemency plea. The brain-damaged killer barely knew his own identity, let alone the fate that awaited him (at his last meal, he saved the pecan pie to eat later), but Clinton proceeded without apparent qualms. "I can be nicked on a lot," he said afterward, "but no one can say I'm soft on crime...
...traditional Thursday meal will be repletewith roast turkey with homemade stuffing andgravy, baked sugar cured ham, harvest nut roastwith vegetarian gravy, whipped potatoes, butternutsquash, mashed turnips, garden green peas, freshcranberry sauce, dinner rolls and fresh pumpkin,apple and pecan pies...
...patrons munch on thin bread sticks and sip white wine. Scuzzi, a very good if pricey Italian dinner restaurant, offers a wide variety of desserts, prepared to please both the palate and the eye. Located across from the Yale Art Galley on Chapel Street, Scuzzi features a delightful pumpkin pecan as well as an extensive, highbrow ice cream selection...