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...needs a few thousand customers like Cory McGrath. On April 7, McGrath, 20, saw a television ad for a Denny's promotion that was taking place the next day. The deal: buy one of its famous $5.99 "Grand Slam" breakfasts, and get a free "Grand Slamwich," a tasty heart attack consisting of scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, shaved ham, mayonnaise and American cheese on potato bread, for a pal (or, if you are into wolfing down a ghastly amount of food, yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denny's: Where the Food Is Free and Drunks Can Pee | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...Frank that the crisis "happened on your watch" and asked if Frank took "any responsibility" for the slide. Frank appeared to lose his cool and grew defensive, saying that Pollak "made an accusation that is wholly inaccurate." Their conversation escalated, with Frank calling Pollak's words a "right-wing attack on liberals", and Pollak retorting that Frank's "entire speech blam[ed] conservatives...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider | Title: Crimson Clash | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...human?” he explains. Schlozman also notes the moral lessons implicit in these movies. They warn of radiation risk and the dangers of conducting experimental tests on diseases; they offer a satirical commentary on governments that stand idly by in the midst of an apocalypse; they blatantly attack the emergence of materialistic tendencies even under dire circumstances.While Scholzman seeks to interpret the psychology of why viewers keep watching zombie films, he also gives thought to the neurology of zombies. According to Schlozman, because the hypothalamus stimulates the drive to forage, zombies’ eternal appetite and fleshy diet...

Author: By Will L. Fletcher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Science on Screen' Reanimates the 'Living Dead' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...suggestion that the girl from Ipanema is not necessarily tall and tan and young and lovely, but could possibly be short and pale and fat and ugly, can cause a scandal here. When the New York Times reported in 2005 that Brazilians were getting fatter, the correspondent came under attack in the media as a gay, Brazilian-hating heretic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...leader Fidel Castro (who officially ceded power to his younger brother Raúl last year because of failing health). At the time of the 1976 airliner bombing, he worked for Venezuela's secret police. Despite abundant evidence against him, a Venezuelan military tribunal acquitted him of the Cubana attack. That verdict was overturned, however, and in 1985, while Posada was being tried in a civilian criminal court, he escaped disguised as a priest. Posada and three other Cuban exiles were convicted in 2000 of conspiring to kill Fidel Castro during a summit in Panama. But four years later, inexplicably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Militant's Indictment Could Boost U.S.-Latin Ties | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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