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Discuss “How Things Work: Meals Ready to Eat”

Before we get started, I?d like to take this opportunity to thank Bill Nicoll, our faithful How Things Work guy, for writing this column for the past year. Bill is off to Germany for a year of study abroad. He will be sorely missed. Bill is already sorely missed, mostly by me, who had to sub for him this week.

After Hurricane Katrina came and went, those left behind were stranded with nothing to eat. Those who had not stocked up on food probably came by their meals via an extremely tardy National Guardsman ? and that meal was in the form of a Meal Ready to Eat, or MRE. Because natural disasters can strike anywhere at any time, it behooves all of us to know our facts about this military manna wrapped in green plastic. Be prepared!

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