Word: chain
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Dana Stone, owner of the Phoenix Coffee House and Cafe located a block away from Starbucks, says her store has started to sell food in addition to coffee to combat the chain's popularity...
Welcome to Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain east of the Philippines. And, yes, it has been a U.S. territory since the end of World War II. Li Li is one of 40,000 foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth...
...maybe Newsweek was right to get it second and Drudge to get it first. Maybe both staked out their proper places in the media food chain. There will be plenty of times when caution will be rewarded and uncritical insta-printing will look foolish. Or maybe they were both wrong: Newsweek to spike a great scoop and Drudge to publish it. The former view is more appealing, and I'm 80% sure it's right...
...Wednesday's episode of Politically Incorrect, Chumbawamba's Alice Nutter told fans to steal the group's hit album from Virgin Megastores. In retaliation, the chain removed the anarchic pop group's CD from their shelves, keeping it behind the counter. While other record stores have done the same to rap groups, this is a first for Virgin. Nutter thinks the company is overreacting. She told People that she's shoplifted many times before--the highlight of which was a very pretty dress. Still, she doesn't think this imbroglio is going to help get out the band's political...
...take care of my issues so that I can come home soon and be a better, happier and nicer and smarter person than when I came here. The water is so blue, the beach looks so sandy, the hills are so green, the weather is so nice--and the chain link so high." --Letter from David van Blarigan, Tranquility Bay, Jamaica, to his parents...