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Unlike Coca-Cola's, Kit Kat's formula is different almost everywhere. A Russian Kit Kat is a fraction of an ounce smaller than a Bulgarian one, and the chocolate is coarser and not as sweet as that in a German Kit Kat. In Japan, strawberry-flavored Kit Kat is all the rage. Each of these product variations is the result of thorough market research on local tastes. "There is no global consumer for the food-and-beverage business. This is a deep belief we have," Brabeck says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nestle's Quick | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Witness the taboo that is single-payer health care, something which no Democratic candidate short of Dennis Kucinich is publicly supporting. Self-described progressives can’t understand those who brush off their inexorable logic. European countries, they point out, spend a fraction of what we do on health care but have healthier populations. Thus, a single-payer system is obviously the solution...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: Putting the Horse Before the Cart | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...True, the book - like the museum's public exhibits - represents a tiny fraction of the vast trove that Alexander Macleay and his son and nephew amassed in a century of obsessive collecting. But it will, Stacey hopes, give readers the kind of thrill she felt when she began opening the thin drawers of Macleay Snr's purpose-built cabinets, "and they're all full of butterflies. One's got all cream ones, the next is orange, then spotted ones, and you keep going, Wow. Oh, God. Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great and Small | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...Square’s restaurants are unattainable (I may love food, but I love a new pair of shoes even more). But even if I can’t afford Rialto, the sequel to “Home Cooking” is at The Harvard Book Store for a fraction of the price and none of the calories. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skip Dinner Tonight: Culinary Writing Feeds The Mind | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Racehorse owners, on the other hand, face long-shot odds. Only a fraction of horses purchased, trained and stabled win prize money consistently; many never compete at all. But that isn't stopping thousands of investors around the world from trying to grab a piece of the next Seabiscuit. If horse racing was once the sport of kings, now it at least encompasses earls, minor nobles, and maybe even a squire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobby Horses | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

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