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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: March 2000)

Date	Item
03/31/00 Chronicle of Higher Education/TD>	University of California civil engineer David Phillips racked up 1 million+ frequent flyer miles after discovering he could send in 10 bar codes from Healthy Choice prodcuts and collect 1K miles on any of 6 airlines. Targetting cheap pudding and soup products, he ultimately wrote off most of his outlay by donating the products to charity--but still has some $25K worth of airline tickets.
03/30/00 Associated Press	Michigan State University food service has prepared for the Final Four semifinals in Lansing by creating a green-and-white soup for students to warm up for the game.
03/20/00 Associated Press	Bob Melia, history buff and pioneer in thermal archeology, used his equipment on a flyover of the notorious Confederate prison at Salisbury, North Carolina, to challenge the view that the nearly 12,000 Union soldiers buried there died of mistreatment. His imaging shows that latrines were located about 20 yards away from the well water supply, suggesting prisoners died of dysentery contracted from the rice soup they were fed.
03/17/00 The Express	Disgruntled English "Castaway" volunteer Ray Bowyer, who participated with 35 others in BBC's survival experiment on the remote Scottish island of Taransay, couldn't wait to escape from the island and complain of uncomfortable sleeping arrangements and weight loss. "We were living on nothing. We had to work all day in bad conditions and our tea consisted of toast and soup."
03/16/00 The Press	Peter Christian reports on shark penis soup at this year's 11th annual Hokitika Wildfoods Festival on the West Coast.
03/16/00 Albuquerque Journal	Diana Heil reports on astronaut Jerry Linenger's account of his trials and tribulations aboard the decrepit Russian Mir space station 3 years ago. Beyond beating back an unexpected fire, he had the distinct unpleasure of subsisting on dehydrated soups and other foods, all rehydrated with purified urine or sweat.
03/15/00 Associated Press	Relocated English soccer fans in Singapore turned out for today's groundbreaking ceremonies of the Manchester United cafe-store, scheduled to open in July. Fans in Singapore will be able to watch live Manchester United games on big-screen TVs while eating Coconut Noodle Soup and Fish and Chips.
03/14/00 Associated Press	A "Quiet Helpers" exhibit opened at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, recalling the Quaker-run groups of volunteers who fed Holocaust victims and the defeated German people following the end of World War II--an activity that won U.S. and Canadian Quaker groups the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize. Horst Winkler recalls emerging from a cellar as a child in 1945, starving, and being fed Lima Bean Soup by Quakers who had set up at the local school.
03/13/00 Reuters	Nickla Gibson reports from Brussels on Belgium's first chocolate restaurant, featuring Cocoa Soup as well as fish terrine with white chocolate and goose liver pate with wine and dark chocolate.
03/09/00 Reuters	Nao Nakanishi reports from Singapore that manufacturers of Asian soup noodles believe their product, made primarily from Australian wheat, will change eating habits worldwide, becoming a universal dish as it replaces rice in Asia and spreads throughout Latin American and African markets.
03/07/00 Associated Press	In an article about U.S. Presidential candidates' wives, Jocelyn Marcel Keyes, wife of candidate Alan Keyes, is identified as both raising a family and running a soup kitchen in Montgomery Country, Maryland--where she ladles out soup and dispenses advice to those in need.
03/07/00 Reuters	Following meals of Callaloo, a spicy crab soup, over 1,000 convicts in two Jamaican prisons are suffering from severe diarrhoea. Angry prisoners dumped scores of paper bags full of feces in passageways to the cell blocks in protest. The managing director of the prison catering service described the charges as "a load of crap."
03/04/00 Associated Press	Cigar connisseurs from around the world, including Fidel Castro and Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, gathered in Havana at the 2nd annual International Habanero Festival--celebrating at a $350/plate dinner featuring pumpkin soup.
03/03/00 Associated Press	Andrew Selsky reports from Chibuto, Mozambique, on the toll taken by the flooding Limpopo River. Refugees in the Chibutol refugee camp complained to him that local aid officials were doling out cornmeal soup only to some of the camp's 1,500 flood victims, while ignoring many others.
03/03/00 Associated Press	Unique Andy Warhol Soup Can painting opens in Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art show: this one has a can opener sticking boldly out of the top.
03/01/00 Associated Press	Florida Circuit Court judge Henry Harnage was deaf to pleas of a mother claiming custody of her 2-year-old son, who she spirited back from Jordan after her husband, the boy's father, allegedly abused her by punching her in the stomach when she was pregnant and pouring soup on her. The judge ruled that Jordan has jurisdiction.
03/01/00 Associated Press	Nick Adams reports from Chechnya on the alleged mistreatment of Chechnyans at a Russian detention camp, despite his tour by Russian army officers showing freshly painted buildings and a soup kitchen where cooks were preparing beet soup. This Chernokozovo camp is the site where Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky said he was beaten by guards in early February.