Groceries Grow Elusive For Many in New York City
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NEW YORK -- Alicia Rivera has no good supermarket within walking distance of her Brooklyn home. A leg injury keeps her from taking the bus, so every three weeks a friend picks her up and drives her to a different neighborhood to stock up on green peppers, milk, chicken wings, ground beef -- as mu...
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OMAHA -- Stocking up on food is as simple as a trip to the grocery store, a veritable land of plenty for Americans.
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- While desperately hungry flood victims wander the streets of Gonaives searching for help, tons of food aid is stacking up in a warehouse guarded by United Nations peacekeepers.
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ORCHARD PARK, NYâIn a town that made its culinary reputation on leftover chicken meat, pretty doesn&#39;t count for much. Buffalo is a working class town and nobody at a sold out Ralph Wilson Stadium yesterday
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The chain still finds it hard to draw more customers.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- The Great White Way and the Great White North will have to wait a little longer to get together.
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By Janice L. Habuda, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 4--Parking no longer is an issue, but People Inc. faces continuing delays in its plan to build a group home on land it owns in the City of Lackawanna.
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New York start-up gets buzz by providing a marketplace for restaurant reservations. But if the hospitality industry has anything to say about it, it won't become the norm.
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ALBANY, NY The state is getting hundreds of thousands of doses of flu vaccine, but the supply will still fall short of what New York needs.
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Dozens of weather-beaten New Yorkers have managed to find salvation in curatives as varied as oatmeal, olive oil and pedicures.
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With growth in the meal assembly industry slowing, shop owners are trying to find new ways to bring ready-to-cook meals to the masses.
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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What does one do when modern transport just can't get the shopping to the front door?
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CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Children swarmed the table outside Blanca Peleaz's concrete home in this central Cuban city. There were cakes and cookies, gooey frosting and candy speckles, rare abundance in a place where food shortages are the norm.
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NEW YORK  - In many Hispanic neighborhoods  in New York City, no prescription is needed to get an  antibiotic. The drugs are readily available in bodegas and  other stores, new survey results indicate.
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An out-of-work David Thomas walked into a Milwaukee food pantry just seeking groceries. Thomas learned he was a stroke waiting to happen and got blood pressure medicine along with his bread. Food pantries have long aimed to help heal hunger. A new project aims to see how well they can help heal high blood pressure, diabetes and other ailments, too.