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...problems begin in the boomtown of Mexicali, which since 1970 has more than doubled its size, to an estimated population of 1 million. There, an overburdened sewerage system dumps millions of gallons of raw waste daily into the 30-ft.-wide stream. Other contaminants are added to the stew as the river continues northward, churning through a garbage dump, past cattle feedlots and dairies, and within yards of ramshackle slums. On the edges of town, such classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain into...
...first step Harvard should take is to sell name rights to dining hall delicacies. Food would then be referred to with its appropriate benefactor, such as the "Widener Beef Stew," "Weld Cod Scallops," or "Loeb Pu Pu platter." The dish owners might then take a special interest in the dish that bares their name, and offer funds for necessary improvements like even finer fine herbs on the chicken, or less congealed grease over the broccoli-cheese pasta...
HISTORY BOOKS in the 1950s, Frances FitzGerald points out in her latest book, portrayed America as a homogeneous nation. History texts of the next decade, however, taught that American society wasn't--and never was--homogeneous and that the U.S. was more of a "stew" or "salad" than the "melting pot" of lore...
There are also some good meat dishes. Carne De Porco A Alentejana($10.75), marinated pork cubes with little necks in shells, allows you to go halfway on the fish experience. And Frango A Monte Pedral($7.95), going along with the smorgasbord stew theme which is the Casa's strength, mixes chicken, linguica (?), ham, onion, and garlic bread in a sweet and slightly spicy wine sauce. If you're a big fan of knockwurst and other beery to worry about what linguica is. and wine dish is the Portuguese answer. Large quantities of vin verde--either Tres Marias or Casal Garcia...
...success, disturbed many writers and First Amendment experts. "The idea that the more you fictionalize, the more you falsify, the more liable you become is quite intolerable," argues Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even though the settlement creates no binding precedent, any Anderson victory, says Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew), is "bad news for writers of fiction. It will open the floodgates for more cases like this...