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...Nightline. At a dinner squeezed in after The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and before Larry King, he orders a hamburger with absolutely nothing on it, a fetish of the unapologetic red-meat eater who doesn't want so much as a sprig of parsley between the bun and the burger. While he likes chilled Mumm champagne and gourmet cuisine on bike trips in Provence with his family, he can live for days on pretzels and Diet Coke. When he finds out the restaurant has his favorite dessert, chocolate ice cream, he digs into it with as much relish...
...promotion by McDonald's in Saudi Arabia, for example, may throw its management into a quiet apoplexy: The BBC reports that Saudi McDonald's franchise holders have announced that during the month of Ramadan, they'll donate 26 cents out of the price of each burger to Palestinian children's hospitals. While there's nothing controversial about supporting children's hospitals per se, the move came as a direct response to mounting calls throughout the Arab world for boycotts of American goods to protest U.S. support for Israel - indeed, Saudi Arabia has offered treatment in its own hospitals for Palestinian...
...France. The object of the globalizing corporation is to "indigenize" itself as quickly as possible. McDonald's may have been forbidden fruit when it first rolled into post-communist Moscow in 1991, but if all goes according to plan the next generation will know it simply as a local burger joint where the staff, for some unknown reason, smile more than is the norm in Russia...
...keep saying that I will," he says, "but those are her things; I don't feel like I have the right." Toward the end, when his mother needed to gain weight but had little appetite, fast food was Roy's best chance at getting her to eat. Passing a Burger King now can reduce him to tears...
Meanwhile, the annual turnover of social workers hovers as high as 70% in some states. "You can't even run a Burger King with a 70% turnover," says Howard Talenfeld, a Florida lawyer. Social workers have always been undertrained, exhausted and second-guessed--so much so that some have turned to a negative kind of creativity. In Milwaukee, for example, social workers don't answer the phone when their caseloads are full. In other places, they simply stop visiting homes where some children are known to be abused because death doesn't seem imminent. They take advantage of recently implemented...