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...JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO, Spain's Prime Minister, after his nation paid a $3.3 million ransom to Somali pirates in exchange for the release of a Spanish tuna boat and its 36 crew members, who had been held hostage on the Indian Ocean for more than six weeks...
...JOSE MARIA DI BELLO, of Argentina, who on Nov. 16 was granted a marriage license to wed his partner Alex Freyre in Buenos Aires after a judge ruled that the nation's ban on same-sex nuptials violated its constitution. The union, scheduled for Dec. 1, would be Latin America's first legal gay marriage...
...than a stovetop griddle. But for the harried homemaker, the newfangled appliance still wasn't easy enough. Enter the Dorsa brothers, Frank, Tony and Sam, who in the mid-1930s created a dry waffle batter that only needed one ingredient: milk. When demand spread beyond their hometown of San Jose, Calif., Frank invented a carousel-like contraption that could churn out thousands of waffles in an hour, which could then be frozen and shipped. Kellogg bought the company in 1970 and introduced the catchy slogan "Leggo My Eggo" in 1972 - the same year a coach at the University of Oregon...
...waffles with caviar, cornmeal waffle chips, something called a "waffle BLT" and even an alcoholic libation that calls for maple syrup and a waffle garnish. As for the devastating Eggo shortage of 2009, it helps to keep things in perspective. As Frank Dorsa's son, Richard, told the San Jose Mercury News, if his dad was still around he'd just "shake his head and say, 'This is silly...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has spent the past year hammering away at the excesses of American-style capitalism. In September, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso declared that workers' rights and "social cohesion" were top priorities on the Old Continent. And Italy's veteran Economy Minister, Giulio Tremonti, went out of his way last month to praise the posto fisso (guaranteed job for life) as a supreme public value. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...