Word: slaughtered
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...methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking three bites of a revolting blue-gray hamburger, then throwing the rest away...
...photo gallery about slaughter in the streets...
...staircases and false fronts of a strange man's brain. The monologist is Bill Unwin, 52, an honorary fellow of a Cambridge college who begins his tale with "These are, I should warn you, the words of a dead man." Three weeks earlier, he was rescued from "attempted self-slaughter." Now, immured in his unreal world, he recalls, simultaneously, his boyhood in Paris, his discovery of the diary of a 19th century forebear, his life as the husband of an actress and his anguished puzzlement at his father's death and his mother's remarriage. A latter-day Hamlet, Unwin...
...Hispanics were only half as likely as whites to have completed four or more years of college in 1990. Probably no school has given more thought to the problem than Occidental College of Los Angeles, where 44% of this year's first-year class is nonwhite. President John B. Slaughter, who is black, believes many nonwhites need a kind of social and cultural head start to prepare them for college life. He strongly supports a program begun by his predecessor that invites about 50 "students of color" to spend five weeks of the summer on campus, prior to their enrollment...
...inside the walls of the old city, here in Quebec World, the waiters and managers all speak English to accommodate their American customers. Forget about trying to order in French; the servers would probably prefer you didn't slaughter the language...