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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: December 1999)

Date	Item
12/25/99 Associated Press	President Clinton and his family began their Christmas feast with winter vegetable soup, followed by turkey and ham with all the fixin's.
12/22/99 Associated Press	President Clinton donned a white apron today at the DC Central soup kitchen, using the occasion to highlight a USDA program that encourages all Americans to make substantial food donations to their communities and avoid food waste. He also used the soup kitchen as a forum to discuss sercurity measures against potential terrorist attacks during the holiday season.
12/22/99 Associated Press	Argentinian environmental officials revealed today that government agents responsible for guarding tiny turtle breeding islands in the Orinoco River had, in fact, been caught selling both turtle mothers and eggs to restaurant owners to be made into soup.
12/22/99 Reuters	The West African nation of Cote d'Ivoire announced the donation of 5 tons of pineapples to Parisian soup kitchens this winter.
12/21/99 Associated Press	Chechnyan refugees who have fled to Ingushetia and are living in empty train cars are reportedly being fed 2 grams of tea, 12 grams of sugar, half a loaf of bread, and one bowl of pea soup per day.
12/17/99 Associated Press	Soup in Asia is used as an alternative medicine--tom yum in Thailand; bone marrow soup, soybean sprout soup, or seaweed soup in Korea; sweet dessert soup in China to balance one's yin and yang.
12/13/99 Associated Press	President Clinton, ailing from the flu and a bad cold, sipped chicken soup, on doctor's orders, to recover in time to attend the resumption of Mideast Peace Talks with Israeli and Syrian leaders.
12/12/99 Associated Press	Egyptian businessmen set up tents in Cairo for nightly "merciful banquets" for the city poor to break the Ramadan fast with soup. Likewise in Bagdad, the poor line up for lentil soup at iftar outside the shrine of Sheik Abdulquadir al-Gailani.
12/8/99 Associated Press	Nine-year-old Travis Butler of Tennessee was discovered living on soup and cereal for a entire month after his mother died in the house of natural causes. Travis lived with the corpse, not telling anyone for fear that he be placed in a foster home.
12/6/99 Associated Press	Sixty inmates of New Folsom prison, California, have continued to refuse to eat prison food, in protest of a year-long lockdown of Hispanic prisoners. How are they staying alive? Mostly soup--one prisoner built up a reserve of 150 Top Ramen soup packs from the prison commissary.
11/28/99 Associated Press	Tomato soup turns out to be one of the favorite dishes of long-tailed macaques during the annual monkey banquest in Lopburi, Thailand. The monkeys, which inhabit ancient Thai temples, are regarded as disciples of Chao Pho Prakam, the revered 4-armed Thai deity.