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This notion was supported by evidence introduced during an alien-smuggling trial in 2003 involving Tyson Foods Inc., which describes itself as "the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork." In this secretly recorded conversation, a federal undercover agent posed as an alien smuggler who was taking an order from the manager of a chicken-processing plant in Monroe...
...FEDERAL AGENT: [After explaining that he was a friend of a mutual friend] He said you wanted to talk...
...been trying for many years. In 2000 I got very tired of doing television. It was sort of eating a hole in my soul. I was 47 at the time, and I saw 50 approaching, and that was a big number. I called my agent and said, "O.K, I'm going to turn 50 in a few years. If we don't get a movie made by then, you're fired...
...Bridgeville won fame as the first town to be auctioned on eBay in 2002, with a winning bid of $1.77 million. The sellers turned to the Internet auction site after real estate agents couldn't unload the unincorporated town - with no grocery store, gas station or restaurant - that's accessible only from a two-lane highway. But the eBay buyer vanished after discovering during a visit that the spot 260 miles north of San Francisco was teaming with abandoned shacks, garbage and decrepit buildings. After a succession of spooked online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker...
...That was in September of Viswanathan’s senior year, right before early action applications were due at Harvard. According to Cohen, it was around that time that Viswanathan and her new agent started working on the concept for "Opal Mehta" and shopping the proposal around to various publishing houses...