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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: August 2000)

Date	Item
08/28/00 London Times	As the U.S. Open tennis crown looms, chap Serena Williams comments on everyday life--that sis Venus likes to cook soup and porkchops when they're home alone together.
08/28/00 Associated Press State and Local	James Hannah reports on Dr. Muntzing of Ohio, arrested for apparently drugging picnic soup and other foods with Cytotec to cause his girlfriend to miscarry their child so he could marry aw previous girlfriend.
08/27/00 New York Times	Marc Lacey reports on President Clinton's congenial meeting with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, noting their economic agreements over a state dinner of pepper soup and tournedos.
08/22/00 The London Times	James Bone reports on the controversial new "Confessions" series on Court TV, which broadcasts prosecutor and police interrogations, including the infamous case of Daniel Rakowitz, a well known eccentric in the East Village of NYC who killed a woman, made soup from her bones, and served it to vagrants in Tompkins Central Park.
08/16/00 Reuters	Elaine Lies reports that Japan resents outside interference with its whaling industry and its restaurants specializing in whale cuisine. "this is part of Japanese culture," says aficionado Takao Suzuki, tucking into a lunch special of friend whale meat and soup at the House of Whales restaurant in trendy Shibuya section of Tokyo.
08/16/00 Reuters	Elaine Lies reports that Japan resents outside interference with its whaling industry and its restaurants specializing in whale cuisine. "this is part of Japanese culture," says aficionado Takao Suzuki, tucking into a lunch special of friend whale meat and soup at the House of Whales restaurant in trendy Shibuya section of Tokyo.
08/15/00 Reuters	Some 600 Cambodian garment factory workers were sent to the hospital for suspected food poisoning after a meal of rice and noodles soup. 148 cases were confirmed. The investigation is continuing.
08/11/00 Daily Variety	Army Archerd reports that "Sex-y" stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon toured Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion, viewing 20 Playmates running through law sprinklers and 12 more frolicking in the grotto. Nixon's reaction? "It looked like 'Tit Soup.'"
08/11/00 Scottish Daily Record	New Dad Michael Douglas, 55, celebrated the birth of son Dylan in L.A. by sending his bodyguard across the street to Jerry's Famous Deli for chicken soup, potato pancakes, and sandwiches.
08/11/00 The New York Post	Dan Aquilante reports that Counting Crow lead singer Adam Duritz recalls the time when Rolling Stone Keith Richards reprimanded him for drinking chicken soup to cure a cold--and gave him a Guinness.
08/11/00 The Washington Times	Don Feder reports that Democrats are outraged, simply outraged that Republican Regents--those who donated $250K to the party since 1/99--have been feted at a Tiffany & Co. gala that served soup in mock Faberge cups.
08/10/00 The Japan Times	The great manga artist Fujio Akatsuka, struggling with severe cancer of the esophagus, is now reflecting on life and his early days, recalling that in his youth he was cheerfully poverty stricken, making ends meet by living mainly off cabbage, which he would add to his miso soup.
08/09/00 AP Online	Deb Reichmann reports that President Clinton has been actively engaged in fundraising for the party, recently feasting on beef Beaujolais soup at a posh Virginia estate with some 40 supporters who were asked to contribute a minimum of $5K to attend.
08/09/00 The Scottish Daily Record	Eleanor Fullerton, a nursing home care worker, has been accused of torturing elderly demenia patients, including putting tomato soup into a patient's ice cream. The trial continues.
08/08/00 The Vancouver Sun	Dennis Feser reports that jockey Gary Base came out of his 4-year retirement to ride Kid Katabatic to victory in the British Columbia Cup Classic, to the rage of Seattle. A notorious weight watcher, Baze credits his 119 riding weight to cabbage soup. "Last January that's all I had. You smell like a cabbage, but it worked."
08/08/00 Newsday	Joe and Teresa Graedon, medical anthropologists and nutrition experts, affirm that hot, spicy soup cures headaches--a result of the action of capsaicin in the hot peppers.
08/08/00 New York Daily News	William Goldschlag reports on the potential wide impacts of newly designated Democratic VP candidate and NY Senator Joe Lieberman on politics in the year 2000: he "is like chicken soup for what ails Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate candidacy. He can't hurt, and he could help a lot."
08/03/00 In Style	Jemima Hunt reports on the Cinema Against AIDS bash at the Cannes film festival, which served attendees Chef Jean-Claude Guillon's shellfish soup with truffles.
08/01/00 Discover	Jill Purse, wife of Rudolph Sheldrake, chose a lunch of garlic-leek soup to reflect on her husband's theories of "morphic fields," where pets communicate telepathically with their owners.