Word: bacon
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...life. Last Sunday another F-14 splashed down into the Pacific about 120 miles from southern California, killing its two crew, and on January 29, an F-14 augured into a residential neighborhood in Nashville after takeoff, killing the crew and three people on the ground. Defense spokesman Kenneth Bacon called the F-14 crashes a "mystery", and said that the standdown would give Navy experts time to "wrack their brains for any explanation to the crashes...
...freezers, incidentally, are descendants of a strain of wild Mexican turkeys domesticated by the Aztecs and taken by Spaniards to turkeyless Europe, then brought back to the New World. Wild turkeys taste pretty much the same--fewer chemicals, more satisfaction--but lack fat, so they profit from slathering with bacon...
...Perry used the V word, he seemed to have changed his mind. In a speech in Philadelphia he labeled Bosnia a place "where our vital interests are not threatened, but we do have an important stake in the outcome." Asked to explain this contradiction last week, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said Bosnia was important, though not vital, but the maintenance of U.S. leadership in NATO was at stake in the peacekeeping mission. "We're protecting NATO," Bacon said. "That's vital...
...vital interest in NATO we have to fight in Bosnia. By this logic, it would make no difference whether Bosnia were an "important" interest or a "somewhat important" or an "utterly trivial" interest; we'd still have to send troops there because of our desire to preserve NATO. Bacon's explanation skips over the really hard question raised by Perry's comment: Is the defense of merely "important" interests worth the lives of American soldiers...
...CALORIES Its light menu flagging, Taco Bell adds Bacon Cheeseburger Burritos to its larder...