Word: chickening
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...human thighs over a fire. One man offers him a chunk of human meat?"gray, fibrous"?impaled on a wooden stick like a kebab. Lloyd Parry refuses, but he can't stop himself from asking the essential question. The answer is predictably gruesome: it's delicious, they say. Like chicken...
...only one-fifth the size of McDonald's in terms of sales, but Wendy's kept growing and generated healthy profits by pulling people into its stores with a steady stream of carefully tested new ideas and products, like the 99¢ value menu, salads and high-quality chicken sandwiches...
...salads, preaching a newfound concern for health. Burger King and Hardee's took the low road, heavily promoting gut-busting sandwiches like the Enormous Omelet and the Monster Thickburger--names that only hint at the fat and calorie content between their buttered buns. Burger King also upgraded its chicken sandwich, a move McDonald's will make this summer. KFC has added a 99¢ chicken sandwich. The situation got so bad that Wendy's had to launch its latest innovation, an entrée-size fruit salad, in February--not exactly when most people are yearning for a slice of cantaloupe--because...
...ever had shingles--a blistering rash that plagues about 1 million Americans each year, most of them elderly--chances are you know how devastating it can be. And if you've never had shingles--well, just wait. Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox--a nasty little bundle of DNA that lies dormant in sensory nerves for decades after the initial infection until, for reasons that are still unclear, it is reawakened. Anyone who has ever had chicken pox is at risk of developing shingles, as well as the nerve damage that often accompanies the rash...
That's why there was so much interest last week in a New England Journal of Medicine report on an experimental vaccine that cuts the risk of shingles--and its painful side effects--by more than half. Like the chicken pox inoculation that is given to children, the new vaccine contains a weakened form of the chicken pox virus. The adult version, though, is 20 times more powerful than the pediatric one because it's working to boost the immune response in bodies where the virus has already taken hold. (Children who are vaccinated against chicken pox still get shingles...