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...public appetite for new flavor sensations. Last year sales of salsa, whose main ingredient is chile, surpassed catsup by $40 million, making it the country's most popular condiment. The peppers are popping up in such mainstream products as Le Menu "Santa Fe style" frozen dinners and McDonald's chicken fajitas. Manufacturers are packaging chile pastas, chile jams and jellies, chile catsup, chile-spiced mustards, peanuts, potato chips and pickles. There is even a sizzling rock band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "There are very few bad things about peppers," says David DeWitt, editor of Chile Pepper, a bimonthly...
...Bush's charges of tax-and- spend liberalism, like his aggressive attacks on Clinton's draft record, were unable to dent the Democrat's double-digit lead in the polls. But when the Clinton forces began infiltrating Bush rallies with workers dressed in yellow-feathered chicken costumes and armed with signs reading WHY WON'T CHICKEN GEORGE DEBATE?, the President lost his cool...
...stalling on debates, Bush and Baker run the risk of allowing Clinton to paint the President as a chicken for another week or two. But it is a risk Bush is willing to take if he can drive up Clinton's negatives in the meantime. "Baker is making a calculation that as long as we're going negative, and it's working, there is no reason to debate yet," the official said, adding, "And until we know what Perot's going to do, it makes sense to stand...
...Panino--literally, "the sandwich"--opened its Cambridge location two years ago. The restaurant boasts family-style, or trattoria-like, dining. There are no waiters, the cooks simply yell out the completed orders. The menu offers sub sandwiches, myriad pastas, pizza, calzone, fish and chicken, most of which come with sauce...
EVEN IN THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WASN'T THE BEST OF jobs. Chopping and cooking chicken parts for Imperial Food Products was monotonous, relentless work, but , the company's largely black and female employees in Hamlet, North Carolina, were grateful for it -- until that awful day last year when a hydraulic line that ran the conveyor belt ruptured and sprayed flammable fluid that ignited, incinerating 25 employees. Horror swiftly turned to outrage when it was learned that the high death count was the result of illegally locked plant doors and the absence of a sprinkler system...