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...that the price increase on each launchable ounce is 9.3%. That, says Hershey, compares with three price boosts per ounce of bar weight of, respectively, 18.4%, 12.8% and 14.1% in the past two years, the base period for guideline comparisons. Reasons for the hikes: cocoa-bean prices have almost tripled since 1975, while costs have also risen for other ingredients, including (Carter, hear this) peanuts...
...world of bus signs and billboards and bean suppers in Everett and ads in the Sudbury Town Crier-Fence Viewer turns on its bumper-stickered axis for the final time. Welcome to the now-predictable world of county races and the non-predictable ways it came...
...Inferiority Complex [Urban Bliss]: Rumor has it at the Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover two years ago there was an L.L. Bean vendor in the stands...
...rules Cambodia in the foreseeable future will reign over a devastated land. According to refugees who have escaped into Thailand, the once lush province of Battambang in Western Cambodia is bare of all fruit and bereft of most of its people. In eerily deserted villages, papaya trees stand like bean poles, their fruit, then their leaves, having been torn off by starving peasants. According to the British Foreign Office study, since 1975 an estimated 2 million Cambodians have died of starvation and disease as a result of a campaign to drive city dwellers into the countryside, where there was insufficient...
...test, the researchers report in Science, they alternately led each chimp off by himself into another room. There he was allowed to watch a container being filled with any one of eleven different kinds of food, such as bananas, bean cake and candy. Handed the food, he was then led back by a researcher (who did not know the container's contents). The other chimp quickly eyed the sealed container but had no idea what was in it either. The returning chimp would then press the appropriate button on the console, which would flash the lexigram for the food...