Word: rice
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...affluent and well fed than among other groups. Japan, where the traditional diet is low in animal fats, has the lowest breast-cancer rate of 39 countries covered in a recent study. But even there the rate is rising as Japanese forsake their old diet of fish and rice for a Westernized menu of meat and fats. Japanese women who emigrate to the U.S. have higher breast-cancer rates than those who remain in Japan. Their U.S.-born daughters have breast-cancer rates approaching those of American women in general. But how and why high-fat diets might trigger breast...
...Died. Edgar Charles ("Sam") Rice, 84, slight (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.), quick Hall of Fame outfielder who punched out 2,987 base hits (his lifetime batting average was .322) with his choppy swing in two decades (1915-34) of major league play, mostly for the Washington Senators; of cancer; in Silver Spring...
...poor and the blacks in ghettos. Unemployment among blacks-as usual much higher than among whites-is 9.8%, compared with 9.2% in 1973. Prices of the foods that the poor depend on have risen far faster than the consumer index as a whole in the past year. Rice is up 90%, sugar 132%, bread 27% and milk 20%. The aged on fixed incomes are often devastated. "I walk into the supermarket, pick up a few oranges and lemons-and then count my money to see if I have enough," says Leah Binder, a 72-year-old Los Angeles widow...
...John W. Rice Tomah...
...priests also accused the mother of freewheeling Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, a cousin of the President's and his closest confidant, of profiteering in sales of subsidized rice in the largely barren central coast. Police roughed up some of the Hue demonstrators, but to avoid triggering trouble elsewhere, they dispersed the crowd peacefully...