They ran the same soup, salad and dessert special they do today.

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At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.

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But there was a stigma attached to that so we moved down the same street to a soup kitchen, with a whole nother set of stigmas attached to that.

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The end result is a chaotic alphabet soup in which different sounds are rendered the same way and the same sounds rendered differently.

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