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...decided to put public relations before profit in rejecting the use of genetically modified potatoes for its famed french fries. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that McDonald's, Frito-Lay and other fast-food and snack-food companies are pulling genetically modified (GM) potatoes from the fryer and quietly telling their suppliers to stick to non-GM varieties. In fact, potato wholesalers have received so many requests for non-genetically modified potatoes that they have asked farmers to stop growing the "NewLeaf" potato, developed by Monsanto, which is equipped with a gene that protects it from insects and disease...
Marino, for his part, went 23-for-42 for 473 yards and five touchdowns, giving the Dolphins a 39-35 victory on a 40-yard touchdown pass to Irving Fryer on fourth and 2 late in the final quarter...
...perfect world, a fryolater [the deep fryer that cooks french fries] would be right out there," McNitt says...
...digital apocalypse, like most things, is a matter of perspective. Consider: for all the new machines that potentially won't work, there are plenty of old machines--dusty, neglected, but serviceable--that will. John Fryer, who runs a downtown-Livingston bookstore, brags that his venerable rotary telephones are invulnerable to power failures because they contain, like others of their vintage, small electric generators powered by their dials. Fryer kept the clunky phones out of old-fashioned thriftiness, not grim survivalism, and now he's glad he did. Says Fryer: "Everything in the store is analog, from the adding machines...
...some of the West's technological have-nots (and its rather-nots, like Fryer), Y2K offers the opportunity for an accelerated game of catch-up, a long-awaited revenge against the nerds. A vast assortment of basic skills given short shrift in the information age--from bow hunting to saw-blade sharpening--may well be transformed into lucrative careers. And while formerly high-paid website designers are frantically distilling potable water from the radiators of their Lexuses, men like master woodworker Dick Murphy will be relaxing before a roaring woodstove, sated by a meal of roasted venison chops. "This...