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Spicy chicken and wildly extravagant living are what Louisiana native Al Copeland will be best remembered for. The founder of the fast-food chain Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Copeland stumbled at first with a bland recipe but found success in 1972 when he used local Cajun flavors. His business ideas didn't always produce results, particularly in the case of his 1989 purchase of Church's Chicken, which ended in bankruptcy. Yet whatever his success, he wasn't shy about public displays of wealth, indulging in over-the-top Christmas-light displays and Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces--though he generated less...
...running out of uncultivated land. But most of the damage created by biofuels will be less direct and less obvious. In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn down to grow the sugarcane that fuels most Brazilian cars. More deforestation results from a chain reaction so vast it's subtle: U.S. farmers are selling one-fifth of their corn to ethanol production, so U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced to the Amazon. It's the remorseless economics of commodities...
...rear tire of a Shaw’s tractor trailer, which dragged him 160 feet. Pasquarello said the driver of the truck was “very distraught” after the incident. As of Tuesday, no charges had been pressed against Shaw’s. The grocery store chain, which has several Cambridge locations, did not return requests for comment Thursday. Gerald E. Zuriff, a psychiatrist who will offer grief counseling and support at Hillel, said at the vigil that Meyers’ unexpected death was “not supposed to happen...
...Bicycles are still two wheels, a chain and handlebars," notes Jager on the challenges of innovating a product that has essentially been around for more than 100 years. Still, the company is hoping Bos and his teammates--who have similar bikes--will prove that even so venerable a contraption can be made new. If all goes well, consumers will be able to purchase a version of the bike for themselves for a mere 4,000 euros (a bit more than $6,100)--wheels not included...
...constructively. Equipping military officers with skills of affiliation has become just as important as equipping them with armored vehicles and machine guns. A single checkpoint guard who treats an important local Iraqi leader poorly may turn him from a friend of the U.S. to an enemy, thus instigating a chain of reduced support for an American presence...