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...camps, usually starts with fluids to counter dehydration. Then comes a high-calorie, high-protein mixture such as the U.S. government's Unimix, made of ground beans, ground rice or 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...
Dicke portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
...Arrow. And it works pretty well. Lawrence Kasdan's script gives Rachel a messy life: the band rehearsing in her living room, members of her entourage wandering in and out, a son lonesome and looking for a father figure. In contrast, Frank has no life at all: an underfurnished tract house with the mail piling up at the front door, no visible friends or light-minded interests. We know, before they do, that this man and this woman were made for each other...
HERE IT COMES AGAIN, THAT HARSH Ross Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef...
...Arts and Sciences. These intellectuals articulated long- festering resentments over Tito's systematic undermining of Serbia's power, culminating in the 1974 constitution that gave far-reaching autonomy to Albanian-dominated Kosovo and to Vojvodina, which has a significant Hungarian minority. While other party leaders publicly condemned the nationalist tract, Milosevic remained silent, indicating that he shared its views...