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...their feathers and skin. At the plant, the birds move rapidly along a disassembly line where they are killed, dropped in scalding water, mechanically defeathered and eviscerated, and chilled in huge water tanks that usually become contaminated. "This is really no different than putting these birds in your toilet," contends Gerald Kuester, a microbiologist with the Public Citizen advocacy group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Dangers of Foul Fowl | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...student, Bernard A. Mansavage '94, was stopped by three police officers outside of Hollis Hall at approximately 4:20 a.m. The officers were responding to a call from a Yard security officer that several individuals were throwing rolls of toilet paper against buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-Year Arrested In Police Scuffle | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

...with a record of multiple divorces. Aunt Anne, as she was called, had a talent for intimidation and exploitation. As her husband stood by ineffectually, she forced Richard and Stanley to do the heavy housework, forage for walnuts and , sell them door to door. Not allowed to use the toilet during the night, Richard surreptitiously relieved himself in jars. Beatings were common, and hunger constant. While Aunt Anne and her husband ate steak, the boys were fed rotting hard-boiled eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balancing on The Edge of Despair | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...point he kneels and works at some potentially good thing with a car mechanic's gasket scraper, then sweeps off the debris with a whisk broom. A visitor asks what he has found. "I haven't got a clue," he says, wrapping the pieces of bone in toilet paper. "That's why I'm taking it." Elsewhere he stops at an unusual fossil spotted the night before by a graduate student out fishing, who excavated it part way with a daredevil spoon intended for catching bass, not dinosaurs. "It's a metatarsal," Horner says, completing the job. "Ornithomimid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...wishes that she lived in a house without wheels. And that she did not have to embarrass her eight-year-old daughter by pulling her out of her brownie troop because the 50 cents-a-meeting fee is too high. That food stamps could be used to buy toilet paper and deodorant. That she could get a real, professional $30 perm, one that would not wreck her hair. That her husband could find a union job, maybe in construction, that paid $6, $7, even $8 an hour. That after eight years of marriage, they could take a vacation together. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What $152 A Week Buys | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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