Interesting Links for 08-02-2020

[andrewducker]

School lunch providers: not as good as the Mafia

(tags:Mafia food school )

Infantilizing babies helps them learn language

(tags:language babies )

Comments

[captainsblog]

As to the Mafia storu: we've had something of the opposite phenomenon in Western New York.

Although the heart of La Costra Nostra was in NYC, Buffalo was long an important territory going back to Prohibition days due to the proximity to Canada. The local made men were brutal and ruthless, but eventually one of the families got into the pizza business, and it was so lucrative, it was "betta fa bidness" to stick to selling legal highs than the other kind.

https://buffalonews.com/2017/03/19/fbi-says-buffalos-mafia-family-ceased-operations/