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- <text id=91TT2633>
- <title>
- Nov. 25, 1991: Eating
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 107
- Eating
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Sophfronia Scott Gregory/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Those Hollywood benefits! Stars in elegant evening wear,
- flashing camera bulbs, Mel Gibson and Cybill Shepherd on the
- floor eating rice with their hands. Don't laugh--that may be
- the scene this week at the Hollywood Hunger Benefit for Oxfam
- America. The event illustrates the world's uneven food
- distribution. Guests will draw straws to decide who will be
- among the 15% to have a stuffed-chicken dinner while 25% eat
- rice, beans and tortillas. But the bulk of the party (the other
- 60%) will sit on the floor and eat rice off paper plates. Though
- the event may exude questionable taste, an Oxfam organizer
- defends it as "not an emulation of suffering. It's about empathy
- toward suffering."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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