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Most restaurants featuring natural food concede that they are hard pressed to offer a 100% organic menu year-round. The best they can hope for is 80% to 90% during the spring and summer months, when local farms are in full bloom; in winter the percentage can slip below 50%. Running an organic restaurant presents other problems. The hours are longer than the average restaurant's, and the drill is more tedious. Menus can change daily, depending on what is available. Since there is no federal definition of what is organic, chefs tend to rely on products certified as authentic...
...promoting imaginative ideas. Illinois Congressman John Porter has proposed the gradual conversion of Social Security to a private system that would give each worker a personal retirement fund to be individually invested. The new arrangement presumably would provide greater benefits relative to cost. Around the country, some infant local think tanks are also innovating. In Denver the Independence Institute is circulating petitions for an amendment to the Colorado constitution aimed at shrinking "giantism" in the public school system. The measure would convert state education subsidies into individual vouchers so that families could shop for the most attractive classroom...
...explosive growth extended the bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity, creating a fluid new nonpartisan politics. And, in the absence of blue-blood dynasties like those in Boston or San Francisco, it engendered an unapologetic admiration for new money...
...Diego's three leading ladies did not always live in mansions in Point Loma and Rancho Santa Fe. O'Connor, one of 13 children of a local boxer named Kid Jerome, once worked after school as a chambermaid in the Westgate Hotel next to the City Hall she now occupies as mayor. She was a phys-ed teacher with a shoestring campaign budget when, at 24, she became the youngest-ever member of the city council. In 1986 O'Connor handily won the mayoral race, after the incumbent mayor was convicted of perjury. By then financing a campaign was less...
...annual wage exceeds $500,000. Simple, slavering self-interest should have dictated that both sides do everything possible to keep the dollars rolling in. A new television contract with CBS will bring the owners $1.5 billion over the next four years. In addition, individual teams have cut deals with local cable-TV distributors that are worth tens of millions of dollars annually. How could the owners seriously put all this at risk, simply to bring the players to heel over comparatively paltry sums...