Word: pork
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...hypertension. According to the A.H.A., one out of every four adult black Americans has high blood pressure, compared with one out of seven adult whites. Some scientists theorize that blacks are genetically incapable of handling the large amounts of salt that are found in a diet rich in pork and highly seasoned soul food. Others suggest that the pressures of being black in America are enough to cause the disease. Indeed, a common joke among blacks is "If you're black and you ain't paranoid or suffering from hypertension, you don't know what...
Martin Peretz, munching a pork chop, takes up his new duties as special lecturer on Mormonism. "Gene says give the system one more chance," Peretz says. "Liberals like myself believe in religious pluralism." Rockefeller bombs Hanoi for Christmas...
Lester R. Brown, a food expert at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C., has suggested that if Americans cut their annual consumption of beef, pork and poultry - currently estimated at 238 lbs. per capita - by only 10%, they could supply the rest of the world with an additional 12 million tons of grain to feed the globe's hungry people...
...studying, the idea being that farming will help them identify with farmers' interests. We had lunch there with an electrical engineer, a lovely man who--like the other people I asked about it--said he'd found the May 7 School hard but worthwhile. "I always liked eating pork, but I never knew how much work goes into raising it." he said. He was spending most of his time tending pigs, and a fair part of the rest in discussions of such topics as the relationship between Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program and the campaign to criticize Confucius...
...typical breakfast menu at Harvard included, among other things, pork chops, fricasseed chicken, cold ham and corn beef. Consumption patterns have changed somewhat since then, but--in a world where 10,000 people die of starvation every week--it seems that Harvard and Radcliffe students still consume more than their fair share of meat. Beef now appears on the menu in some form at least once a day, and students can help themselves to as much as they...