Word: chickening
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...saturated fats. But nowadays that's not all. Many consumers have added a new standard to their shopping lists: corporate responsibility. They may favor Campbell's Prego spaghetti sauce over Unilever's Ragu because Campbell runs a day-care center and Unilever invests in South Africa. Consumers are eating chicken instead of tuna salad because thousands of dolphins drown each year in tuna nets. They have put pressure on Uniroyal to halt distribution of the suspected carcinogen Alar, a chemical used to ripen apples and keep them crisp, which may have influenced the company's decision last month to take...
...evening, lightweight tables and chairs are set out under a mesquite tree, just as they would be in an African hunting camp in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Marge, a silver-haired Texas beauty dressed for the bush in denim and turquoise, lays on a simple feast of guacamole and chicken- salad sandwiches. Calvin uncorks bottles of fine South African grand...
...personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Despite occasionally receiving a low grade for an acrid vinaigrette or undercooked chicken, the students get kicks of their own. Henry Hirsch, 26, sometimes forgets that there is a world beyond the kitchen door as he sautes lamb over the hot stove at L'Ecole. "You get sick of the food back here," says Hirsch, a photographer who wants to open a restaurant of his own. "Then you look out into the dining room, and people are actually enjoying it." Especially at those prices...
...iron kettle whose contents suggested that more than just a band of ruthless killers had been at work. Inside the pot, resting in dried blood, were a charred human brain and a roasted turtle. Other containers held a witch's brew of human hair, a goat's head and chicken parts. After arresting and questioning four suspects, the Mexican police pieced together a horrific tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation to the U.S. "They felt that...