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Fast-food restaurants specializing in ethnic and regional fare--like the California-based New Meiji chain of Oriental food--are adding to the diversity. "The earlier cycle of fast foods was primarily concerned with supplying sustenance in a cheap, quick manner," says Lamar Berry, a spokesman for Popeyes, a growing chain specializing in spicy, Cajun-style fried chicken. "Now you can get convenience everywhere. People want to get the ethnic experience and titillate their taste buds...
...turn of the century. High rents are also forcing young adults to remain at home. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 62% of men and 47% of women still live with their parents--a mixed blessing that neither parents nor restive children may prefer. "Home is where the cheap eats are," notes Census Bureau Demographer Steve Rawlings. "The nest isn't emptying as it once...
...years of tireless commitment to improve the physical and emotional health of the American people." Health inquiries, once just 5% of Landers' mail, now amount to nearly a third. "People began writing to me with their medical problems," she says, "because I was a good, easy and cheap way for them to get a medical checkup. The price was right." And unlike a lot of free advice, hers was worth...
Like many companies, Harley-Davidson started licensing its name partly to protect the reputation of its trademark. Shady operators were doing a brisk business in cheap, phony Harley souvenirs. So now, after a hot day on his Harley-Davidson bike, an easy rider wearing genuine Harley boots and a Harley shirt can reach into his Harley wallet and pull out some money to pay for a Harley-Davidson wine cooler. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Wilmer Ames Jr./New York
...after a period of placid relations while Washington was absorbed with the war on terrorism, there have been indications aplenty that some high U.S. officials--and many ordinary Americans--find China's rise to be a source of anxiety. China, critics say, manipulates its currency to keep its goods cheap, hence destroying American jobs. China steals intellectual property from U.S. firms. China is engaged in a crash program of modernization of its armed forces...