| Schools contend with unpaid school lunch bills
UNDATED (AP) - In Arkansas, as in other states, many public school districts are having problems picking up the tab for children who don't qualify for the federal school lunch program and whose parents don't send money with them to school for lunch. Last term, unpaid cafeteria charges in the Conway public schools, for instance, reached $14,000. By the end of the term, only about half of that had been collected. A food services group is looking for ways to resolve the ongoing problem for public schools in the state. Some want to merge the free-lunch and reduced-price programs. The Arkansas School Food Services Association says the state could pick up the cost, estimating an additional $3 million-a-year expense. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press.
FSU, FAMU and TCC students brave rain, head back to class
Life in academia has started and scholars are leaving their sneaker prints in the hall. On a rainy Monday, about 65,000 students started classes. Victoria Yip, an exploratory science and philosophy student from St. Petersburg, had a hot start to her freshman year. A resident on her floor was cooking steak and left the stove unattended. Dinner turned into a blaze in the newly built DeGraff Hall Sunday night. .
There's nothing like a man in the kitchen
I'll always remember the guy who got away. Not because of his doe-brown eyes magnified through round glasses, which were cool even before Harry Potter. Not because he was a graduate of Brown and Columbia Business School and could make beautiful furniture by hand. And not because, as I found out years later reading about his wedding in The New York Times, he was sitting on a $100 million real estate fortune. No, what I'll always remember about him was the dinner he cooked on our third date. It was a rainy, blustery March evening. In his perfect way, Jake (whose name has been changed to protect his "trade secrets") called mid-afternoon to suggest that we skip dinner at the latest hip restaurant and grab something at his place instead. I was smitten. (Had he served me frozen pizza and a Bud I would have thought him a culinary giant.) But since he had spent three months at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, the menu was creamy pea soup, sea bass with ginger and miso, perfectly charred asparagus, and a rhubarb-pear crumble for dessert.
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