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...Until the number of squirrels exceeds 450, the number the mountain can support, they will be in jeopardy of extinction," says Warshall. "The squirrels' population has fallen due to a bad cone crop. The extreme fluxuation in their food supply due to tree cutting may cause their population to crash...
...friend mentioned that she knew someone spending time in Ecuador who missed Pralines 'n Cream. I wrote to Baskin-Robbins asking how one would get some of this flavor to Ecuador. They sent me an informative letter in return, and they did include a coupon for a free cone. And my friend sent some ice cream to Ecuador. Andrew T. Starr...
...Andrew was in there trying to get his free samples, and they restricted him to two or three--he got irritated, and he wrote a letter to Baskin-Robbins complaining that he wasn't treated properly," says Olkin. The company sent back a certificate for a free cone...
...reach a generation so rootless and noncommittal. But ad agencies that have explored the values of the twentysomething generation have found that status symbols, from Cuisinarts to BMWs, actually carry a social stigma among many young adults. Their emphasis, according to Dan Fox, marketing planner at Foote, Cone & Belding, will be on affordable quality. Unlike baby boomers, who buy 50% of their cars from Japanese makers, the twentysomething generation is too young to remember Detroit's clunkers of the 1970s. Today's young adult is likely to aspire to a Jeep Cherokee or Chevy Lumina with lots of cup holders...
History proceeds in gossip and fractals. Fractals are the mysterious and apparently irrational forms proposed by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who says that reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid and surprises that ridicule the idea of order. The shape of a mountain is not a cone. Clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, reputations, fame, the passage of history itself (think about the past ten months) -- all these are fractal shapes...