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...Pork...
Other people die in the household. Four weeks ago, a three-month old baby died, lying alone on the parents' bed. The little girl had eaten nothing but pork fat in her short life; Mrs. Miller had no mild of her own to give the baby, and there was no money to buy milk from the store...
Keeping kosher can be a real test of a housewife's menu-planning. Certain foods, such as pork and shellfish, are absolutely prohibited. Kosher meat, which must be slaughtered under rabbinical supervision, has to be drained of all blood before being eaten-which means soaking it in cold water for half an hour and then salting it. In some urban areas, shopping at least is no longer difficult. Nearly 500 food companies produce more than 2,500 supermarket-stocked items that have been approved as kosher by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations-including milk substitutes made from soybeans...
...double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched on the National Assembly building, on their way pushing down hastily erected metal barriers and hurling them into a canal. The police, backed by fire trucks, were at first stunned into inaction by the unusual sight, but later scuffled with demonstrators...
Four days spent in cooling the slums gave Stokes time to polish some ideas. Then he began to act. Farmers were killing pigs to dramatize their desire for higher prices; Stokes got them to donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free meat to Cleveland's poor. He launched town-hall meetings to touch people for volunteer work at city hall. He bewitched the audience of Captain Cleveland, a kiddie video show advocating good citizenship. His biggest decision was to call the first planning session for a major, long-term effort...