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...Theresa Raycroft isn't buying it. Her apartment has a bird's-eye view of Blommer's, where walk-ins can sample free chocolate. A neighbor for nearly 20 years, Raycroft says she's puzzled why anyone would complain about a little cocoa dust in one of the last heavily industrialized sections of downtown, where trucks, traffic, construction and noise are much more offensive...
...their stiff-upper-lip stoicism, the British go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over any native band that can gin up three chords and an attitude. The latest kings of England are the Arctic Monkeys, four lads who got guitars for Christmas in 2001, mastered them quickly, toured the country and handed out home-burned CDs of songs that were then uploaded to the unsigned-band portal MySpace.com Their following metastasized to the point that the band sold out the famed London Astoria last year on word of mouth. When a record-company bidding war ensued, the Arctic Monkeys signed with...
...timing couldn't be worse for the chocolate industry. A week before Valentine's Day, Nestl, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland--the cocoa suppliers for virtually every major chocolate producer in the U.S.--will have to show up in court to answer for allegedly supporting child slavery on West African farms, where 70% of the world's cocoa is grown. The hearing, set for this week in Los Angeles, stems from a lawsuit filed by the International Labor Rights Fund, which is also taking aim at another Valentine's Day staple: lovely bouquets that happen to be laden with pesticides...
...microscope and helped him set up a laboratory next to his bedroom. Their neighbor, a pathologist, gave him slides of organs preserved in formaldehyde, and Marshall says he discovered a method of breeding paramecia—single-celled organisms—in a mixture of grass, water, and cocoa powder.“My mother thought the protozoa would climb out and attack the house,” he says, but he assured her they couldn’t survive outside containment.Marshall never attended college, but says he enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...fable of domestic devotion among Antarctica's emperor penguins. For months, while the mother forages for food, the father struggles to keep the egg safe in a -80F chill. This French documentary, for which its heroic makers deserve the Lgion d'Honneur and cups of steaming cocoa, became a $77 million sleeper hit in North America. Now that it's winter, watch the film again on DVD, and be warmed...