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...father carries a flashlight and has been known to set napkins on fire trying to read the words on his menu," says Richard Foss, a California restaurant critic who has launched a service called Menu Repairmen. Foss cites Elizabethan fonts and old-German typefaces as egregious examples of hard-to-read styles used by pubs to signal authenticity...
...Bang Devils, a black-humored novel about a cross-cultural kidnapping gone wrong, is awash in gore. Joints are crushed, cartilage exposed, skulls pulped with crowbars, corpses mutilated, and most of the survivors sport fresh stumps in place of pinky fingers. First-time author Patrick Foss is more than happy to sacrifice lives and digits to keep the plot moving...
DIED. JOE FOSS, 87, Medal of Honor--winning World War II pilot, Governor of South Dakota, commissioner of the American Football League and head of the National Rifle Association; at a hospital near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Dubbed "America's No. 1 Ace" on the cover of LIFE magazine for shooting down 26 fighters and bombers in the battle for guadalcanal, he later drew controversy as a gun supporter. in 1990 he told TIME, "All guns are good guns...
...were New Economy chic, and to some extent retain currency. Energy traders still use financial instruments that Enron pioneered in order to hedge against price swings. As for those notorious off-balance-sheet partnerships, "they can be used legitimately for financing projects in high-risk countries," says Michelle Michot Foss, an economist at the University of Houston...
...blowtorch temper, Immelt is low-key and understated--more likely to tease employees than scold them to get his point across. "If you, say, missed your numbers, you wouldn't leave a meeting with him feeling beat up but more like you let your dad down," says Peter Foss, a longtime friend and colleague of Immelt's and president of GE Polymerland, part of its plastics business...