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...welfare programs against Medicare, catastrophic health insurance and numerous benefits for the elderly. With each advance in medical technology, doctors and ethicists wrestle over how long people should be kept alive and how to ration health care between the young and the very old. And closest to home, many "sandwich" families will feel a terrible strain as they try to raise their children and sustain their parents on a squeezed household budget...
Adieu, croissants! Adios, tacos! Make way for the ethnic sandwich vehicle of the moment. The bagel has gone mainstream. Dense and chewy, with a shiny golden brown crust and a center hole, this round Jewish-Eastern European roll has long been a breakfast favorite primarily in New York City and along the Atlantic seaboard. Now it is increasingly appearing on fast-food menus and in the freezers of supermarkets well beyond its ethnic boundaries. Two giant firms have moved into the frozen-bagel business in recent years: Kraft, which owns Lender's, the first and largest producer of frozen bagels...
...package will still include what Weiss describes as "some fancyshmancy computers" to handle takeout orders. Designed by a local software firm for Pentagon use, the computers are designed to take spoken sandwich orders by telephone...
...kitchen fire broke out late Monday night at Elsie's on Mount Auburn Street and the managers of the Harvard Square landmark yesterday closed the sandwich shop for remodeling...
...Chernobyl, you had a nuclear fire that at the first stage affected the technicians in the plant," noted Selidovkin. "But there was no cesium 137 introduced into their bodies. Here the irradiation was both incorporated and local." Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, who had eaten a cesium-tainted sandwich, continued to emit 25 rads a day, even after repeated efforts at decontamination. At that rate, the radioactivity in her body was destroying her bone marrow before it could produce white blood cells...