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...dangers of scofflawry vary wildly. The person who illegally spits on the sidewalk remains disgusting, but clearly poses less risk to others than the company that illegally buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location. The fare beater on the subway presents less threat to life than the landlord who ignores fire safety statutes. The most immediately and measurably dangerous scofflawry, however, also happens to be the most visible. The culprit is the American driver, whose lawless activities today add up to a colossal public nuisance. The hazards range from routine double parking that jams city streets to the drunk...
Prepare the pudding with 1 1/2 cups of milk You don't need a rotary beater, just beat briskly with a fork. Chill (Pudding is not absolutely necessary for the recipe to work well, so only use it if you really like pudding...
British inflation beater...
...compiled a marvelous glossary of such wise-guy locutions, including "Hoboken special," which for some reason signified a pineapple soda with chocolate ice cream, and "twist it, choke it and make it cackle" for a chocolate malted with an egg (twist presumably for the twisting of the malted-milk beater, choke for chocolate, and cackle, of course, for the chicken that laid the egg). New scoop shops do not seem to have developed such a memorable language of their own. Carla Seidel, 20, a friendly, blond, Harvard psychology major who scoops the graveyard shift...
...LITER BEATER...