Jun 05, 2009 -
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.
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Jan 30, 2009 -
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.
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Mar 26, 2009 -
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.
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Jan 01, 2009 -
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.
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Jan 29, 2009 -
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
The Washington Post
updated 5:15 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - Who am I?
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Jan 27, 2009 -
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.
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Jan 23, 2007 -
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!
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Sep 11, 2008 -
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.
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Dec 14, 2007 -
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.
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Jan 24, 2007 -
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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