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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corn, sugar and vegetable oil. This is given in frequent, small meals so that the out-of- practice digestive tract can handle it. Severely malnourished children may require hourly feedings. "They are hard to rehabilitate because they are lethargic and lose their appetite. They turn their head when spoon-fed," says Dr. Graeme Clugston, chief of the World Health Organization's nutrition program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes More Than Food to Cure Starvation | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...greasy spoon restaurant on Mt. Auburn street closed its doors over Thanksgiving weekend without so much as a fare-thee-well from its curmudgeonly owner, but in an exclusive interview with The Crimson yesterday Tommy Stefanian revealed the motive for his abrupt departure...

Author: By Anna E. Arreola, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Tommy Reveals Reasons for Closing Down Shop | 12/2/1992 | See Source »

Adams said he hopes to begin work on a new book after completing the publicity tour at the end of the year. He said it will probably be another sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, with the tentative title A Spoon Too Short...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Novelist Doug Adams Reads From New Book | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

SPIKE LEE Gag me with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorecard: Oct. 12, 1992 | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

Americans like to accuse their opponents of forming an elite; it's one of the hoariest cliches of democracy. But Quayle was born not with a mere silver spoon but with a silver ladle in his mouth. He is the millionaire son of media millionaires, imbued with the deepest tribal mores of the Midwestern country club, raised to office by presidential patronage. For such a man to complain about elitism, and media elitism in particular, seems forced. There is something distinctly unbecoming about Quayle's efforts to present himself as a man of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NEA: Trampled Again | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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