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...what quantities. The menu is 20 pages long and the list of culinary offerings from around the globe is interspersed with advertisements for products that range from Coca-Cola to Joan’s Jewellery. (Note to Christmas shoppers: She will prefer a six pack of Diet Coke to a pair of rhinestone earrings from Joan’s. The soda is infinitely more romantic and, besides, should have a far higher resale value). Portions are similarly super-sized: A trip to the Cheesecake Factory is not for the faint of heart (literally). The Cheesecake Factory’s gargantuan...
They have put out giant bowls of snacks: jelly beans, Gummi Bears, unsalted cashews, sugar-free sucking candies. They offer me Coke in a bottle. How can I not like these people? It would be like not liking your grandparents...
They have put out giant bowls of snacks: jelly beans, Gummi Bears, unsalted cashews, sugar-free sucking candies. They offer me Coke in a bottle. How can I not like these people? It would be like not liking your grandparents...
...constant ballast" technique, in which a diver uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable that pulls the diver to depths where Coke cans implode and fish swim nearly blind. An air bag at the top of the sled is inflated by the diver and shoots the diver to the surface. Because of the short submersion time, decompression sickness--the bends--isn't normally a problem. Fewer than two dozen people...
...profits will go to Palestinian charities. Coca-Cola is unlikely to be too philanthropic toward Mecca-Cola, whose logo seems familiar. Coca-Cola representatives say they're "looking into" any similarity. But the company is famous for defending its trademarks; while Mecca-Cola says its targets are elsewhere, Coke's lawyers might already be seeing red. THE BOURSE All Fall Down Just when you think the apocalypse at Switzerland's largest life insurer, Swiss Life, must be complete, in swoops another horseman. Last week CEO Roland Chlapowski became the second top executive to be ousted in nine months; the next...