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...soft-spoken, polite man who has long worked as obstetrician, Tom Coburn has angered senators from the right and the left in his decade-long battle to cut what he considers pork-barrel spending from the federal budget. Coburn has diagnosed such spending, known as earmarks, as "the gateway drug to spending addiction" and he's determined to cure Congress of this malady. As the Senate has worked to pass a key appropriations bill over the last two weeks, Coburn has attached 19 amendments to the bill, all targeting spending provisions he thinks are pork. Most famous for his attacks...
...some group leaders worry that with a larger number of groups comes a smaller pool of dedicated students. Brian P. Weller ’09 is a founding member of the pork barrel spending group. He believes that the abundance of policy groups spreads the reservoir of politically-active students too thin...
...from “how they make a product all the way to where they serve it,” Fallon says.A complaint was lodged against Felipe’s in January after a customer said he vomited and was struck with diarrhea after allegedly eating a pork taco at the Square hot spot. Inspectors found Felipe’s hot-holding temperatures inadequate, and the restaurant corrected them the next day.While the Hong Kong on Mass. Ave. was once near the bottom of the barrel in terms of cleanliness, records show the restaurant received only four violations...
...will be a casual and very comfortable place to eat. Our food will be simple in its presentation yet full of complex flavors.” Two menu items that are currently most popular at Café Z are a vegetarian Moroccan stew at lunch time and a pork chop with a fruit and olive compote at dinner, according to Sampson. The Z Restaurant Group will begin construction on Z Square Cambridge immediately after Finagle vacates the space on May 1. It is expected to open in mid-August for lunch service and will be in full operation by September...
...with a gene that caused them to produce Omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease. The new research could mean that ham-lovers will be eating beneficial Omega-3s in addition to the cholesterol and saturated fats that are associated with pork. Omega-3s are normally found in oily fish, such as salmon and tuna, but some concerns surround high mercury and lead levels in fish. “People can continue to eat their junk food,” said Alexander Leaf, an emeritus professor of clinical medicine at Harvard...