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Prison Blues: States Slimming Down Inmate Meals
Prison blues: States slimming down inmate meals By SHANNON McCAFFREY ATLANTA (AP) — The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus. Georgia prisoners already didn't get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead.Providers to the poor try to stretch meager resources to meet growing need
SEATTLE - As snowstorms blew into this Northwest city and the economy iced over in December, the occupants of a shelter nestled among industrial buildings on the north side prayed for divine intervention. “We were hoping for the Christmas miracle,” says Glen Dennis, 41, who was working his way through a residential drug-treatment program at the CityTeam Ministries shelter. Dennis and the other 11 guys in the long-term program —dubbed the “disciples” — also worked each day to prepare for some 50 to 60 overnight shelter guests, and dish up free hot meals to about 100 people.America’s Unhealthiest Restaurants (Eat this, Not That)
America’s Unhealthiest Restaurants by David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding a Yahoo! Health Expert for Nutrition http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/26542/americas-unhealthiest-restaurants Your favorite fast food restaurant is often like your favorite city: Visit some neighborhoods and you live the high life. Visit others and you’re just plain asking for trouble.Zimbabwe inflation poses threat to all, including the Government
Zimbabwe inflation poses threat to all, including the Government Monday, 29th December 2008. 8:43am By: Obert Matahwa. Harare: As millions of young and energetic Zimbabweans run away and cross the border illegally into neighbouring countries, especially South Africa, Botswana Mozambique and Zambia, the aged are mostly hard hit, especially pensioners who savings have been eroded by the world’s highest inflation said to be over 300 million per cent and predicted to have breached the one billion percentage barrier by the private sector and the International Monetary Fund or the IMF.'Soul-searching', rebuilding on the agenda as RNC gathers in D.C.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia The Washington Post updated 5:15 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009 WASHINGTON - Who am I?Gruesome recipes of drug cartel's 'disposal expert' shocks the public
By William Booth The Washington Post updated 1:00 a.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 27, 2009 MEXICO CITY - As the nation's drug war rages on, with its weekly tallies of headless torsos, it is getting harder to produce a shock wave in the Mexican media.Creamy Potato Cheese Soup
January is national soup month! I love soups, soups are best made for dinner and served hot off the stove. In memory of colormesticky's request under YumSugar's National Soup Month post I decided to post my potato cheese soup I made for dinner last night, my mom loved the soup so much she told me that I should study on being a pro chef!
An American Woman
After the publicist set me straight, I ran down to the beach to find my mother. A left-leaning Quaker who is president of the League of Women Voters in her Texas town, my mother is the least likely person to celebrate the election of a Republican to national office.
But as a young woman she had lived in Alaska, teaching English to natives and living on a houseboat.
Priciest U.S. Restaurants
Top Five Priciest Restaurants Masa, New York City Alinea, Chicago Canlis, Seattle Joel Robuchon at the Mansion, Las Vegas Urasawa, Los Angeles As the restaurant critic for The Seattle Times, Nancy Leson knows her way around the coastal city's restaurant scene. When it was time to treat her husband on his birthday, she took him to Canlis the city's most expensive a la carte restaurant. For once, the meal was entirely on her dime “and it was worth every penny of it,” she says.Frozen Peanut Butter, Chocolate, and Banana Loaf
Yesterday was one of my favorite days, National Soup Day! Today is another favorite, National Peanut Butter Day! So like yesterday I HAD to post a recipe to do with the day, so here is my favorite and everyone elses treat that was served on my 15th birthday.
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