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...McDonald's India. When McDonald's opened its first outlet in 1996, it had to toss out much of its standard menu: Hindus consider a cow sacred and won't eat beef. Bakshi tried introducing India-friendly alternatives. In place of the classic Big Mac, Bakshi offered a burger with mutton patties, christening it the Maharaja Mac after India's princely historic rulers. The sandwich flopped and was pulled from the menu...
...Task Force 20, operating south of Tikrit, nabbed two more "high level" resistance leaders on the same night. Said Russell after the raid: "The source came through." And he could come through again--if his name doesn't end up on the wrong list. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Michael Ware/Tikrit
...much. Ever since the McDonald brothers perfected a method for deep-frying julienned potatoes and an Idaho researcher figured out how to freeze and refry the potatoes for mass consumption, fast-food chains, where some 40% of the U.S. potato crop ends up, have been serving the same basic burger accoutrement. After health concerns about the high fat content of fries were raised more than a decade ago, McDonald's switched in 1990 from a blend of beef tallow and cottonseed oil to pure vegetable oil in its deep fryers. Now McDonald's and the others are scrambling to respond...
...1970s were really one: a decade of populism, individualism and social flux when the rules were up for grabs--a situation we can thank for both The Last Picture Show and the leisure suit. Goof or Golden Age? For one week, as was the 1970s mantra of Burger King and Hollywood's auteurs, you can have it your way. --By James Poniewozik
...left for Yemen, partly because of a "climate of fear of intimidation," says Johari Malik, a friend. Malik says al-Aulaqi returned briefly last fall to liquidate his assets and adds: "If he was concerned about the feds, he wouldn't have come back." --By Massimo Calabresi, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon