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...cruise missiles. Once Iraq's air defenses are crushed, more vulnerable F-14s and F-18s from three or four Navy carriers by then in the region could begin striking additional targets. The speed of the air war would depend in part on which neighboring countries--Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Saudi Arabia--allowed allied jets to launch from their territory...
...conveyor and forged ahead without a nod or a smile. It felt more than unpleasant; it felt un-American. But this is a Midwesterner talking. We were brought up to be thankful and wait our turn and not think we were too important to stand in line for the turkey and stuffing...
...late November, then it's time for Turkey Day at Little Woods Elementary School in New Orleans, La. Each fall, for decades, students have dined on the same spread of turkey, Creole gravy, corn-bread dressing and sweet-potato pie. But this week they will add a few new rituals to their holiday meal. Some will poke and prod their turkey meat or smell it to check for rancidity; others plan to pass on the lunch altogether. Most everyone will try to banish the memory of last year's Turkey Day, which ended in a mass pilgrimage to the school...
...fell ill with various symptoms of vomiting, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea; a handful were rushed to the hospital. The culprit? Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that resides in the intestines of animals but is usually killed when meat is properly prepared. In a report titled "An Uninvited Guest at Turkey Day," state inspectors found that Little Woods' cooks did not monitor the temperature of the turkeys as they cooked. The officials also noted some other uninvited guests: an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen. "It's bad enough that we have to think about safety when we send our kids...
...problem in perspective: despite the percentage increase in the number of incidents, major food-poisoning outbreaks occurred in just 300 schools nationwide during the 1990s. So the chances of your child falling prey to a massive, Turkey Day--scale illness are still minuscule. But that doesn't mean you can relax. "Full outbreaks are just the tip of the tip of an iceberg," says Paul Mead, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's food-borne--and diarrheal-diseases branch. The vast majority of food-borne illnesses strike only a handful of children at a time, and symptoms...