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Although its public relations department may not realize it, the USDA has some great ammunition against the inevitable charges that it's introducing un-American food products into our school systems. Back in the 1980s, members of the Reagan administration introduced soy as a possible cost-cutting ingredient for school lunches. The soy proposal, which suffered an early demise at the hands of those who opposed Reagan's spending cuts, was also doomed by its association with the President's infamous insistence that as far as school lunchrooms were concerned, ketchup could be considered a vegetable. Today, however, once-skeptical...
This past spring, the club went on a trip to the zoo; along the way, they learned to distinguish between the kosher and un-kosher caged animals...
...this year than there were live-action films. Disney alone had Tarzan (its snazziest and most affecting feature since The Lion King), Fantasia 2000 (a rhapsody of sound and light) and, via Pixar, the deft, ingratiating Toy Story 2. And what can we say about Trey Parker's very un-Disney South Park that the film itself didn't sing in four-letter words and the cleverest original movie score in decades? Just that it's devilishly, hummably funny...
Your move, Washington. A day after a U.S. got the UN Security Council to approve a new system to get arms inspectors back into Iraq, Saddam Hussein gave his answer: Nobody's coming in here until the UN lifts its sanctions against my country. Under the proposed deal, the previous inspection body, UNSCOM, would to be replaced by an entirely new organization, UNMOVIC (U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) with little continuity in staff. "The old hands at UNSCOM fear that the new body will be a papier-m?ch? organization, unable to carry out effective inspections," says TIME U.N. correspondent...
...Stetson is simply luminous. From the melancholic torch songs of "Sorry Her Lot" and "The Hours Creep on Apace" to her puckish asides before and during "Refrain Audacious Tar", she has a positively radiant stage presence, extracting pathos in being the leashed Captain's daughter, alternately revelling in distinctly un-ladylike defiance. The chorus does well too, small choreographed numbers being infused with refinement on behalf of the women, and gangly indelicacy among the sailors...