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...worth buying when the new hot food items may bring only marginal sales increases. Microwaves work fine for breakfast sandwiches, they say. Currently 63% of revenues in a typical store comes from coffee and 17% from doughnuts. "We like innovation, but we don't want to lose any ground," says Mark Dubinsky, president of Dunkin' Donuts Independent Franchise Owners, which represents about 200 owners of 1,500 stores...
...walked up to the doors to swipe in, and all of the windows were smashed in,” she said. “I swiped in and found that the elevator was on the ground floor, and there seemed to be blood and broken glass in the elevator and right next to the door...
...normalizing relations between the two nations. (Like the U.S., Japan has never established official diplomatic connections with North Korea.) But while American negotiator Christopher Hill happily characterized his meetings with the North Koreans earlier this week as "very constructive," Japan's summit with the North never got off the ground. North Korea pulled out of a planned session yesterday afternoon, and today's talks lasted just 45 minutes. And guess what? It may be Japan's fault...
...also surrendered some of the moral high ground last week when he publicly expressed doubt that the Japanese military during World War II had coerced citizens of occupied countries into becoming "comfort women," a euphemism for sex slaves. Though Abe's aides scrambled to downplay his statement, he announced today that his government would assist a group of right-wing Japanese lawmakers in their efforts to reinvestigate the comfort women issue - which could be the first move in overturning a 1993 government apology on the subject. That Japan's Prime Minister is seen as calling on North Korea to come...
...hope for the best but prepare for the worst," said Colonel Advitya Madan, the unit's commander, as he served tea with the battalion silver, which also includes tug-of-war trophies from the 1930s. Then he went off to drill the battalion, which was waiting on the parade ground in full dress uniform, in preparation for a medal ceremony to be held several weeks away...