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...Amount paid by the KFC fried-chicken chain to a woman in Hebei, China, who sued because a male attendant cleaned the ladies' toilet while she was using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...Cambridge, was gunned down in broad daylight on the afternoon of June 8, while he waited at a bus stop on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Walden Street. According to police, Scott, the father of a five-year-old girl, was standing in front of the KFC and Taco Bell located near Porter Square when he was approached by a male assailant who allegedly produced a handgun and opened fire. Scott suffered four fatal shots to the torso...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller and Andrew M. Sadowski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Residents Concerned by Recent Wave of Violence | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...kids hang out at Karachi's single mall, listen to heavy metal, and some of them form gangs with cry-tough names such as 9mm, Kryptonite and Outsiders. Every so often, they'll rumble over a girl and arrange for their bodyguards to trade a few punches in the KFC parking lot. There are no burqas here: the girls wear tight jeans; their mothers prefer designer salwar kameez of watered silk and diamant? Chanel sunglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Have & Have Not | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...been hired by Chinaveg, a private company owned by the Hong Kong venture-capital firm Interasia and other investors. Trett's mission: to modernize farming techniques for the 6,000 tons a year of lettuce that Chinaveg grows, washes, cuts and packages for sale to buyers in China, including KFC's operations there, to the Japanese fast-food giants Ajinomoto and Yoshinoya and to hundreds of supermarkets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agribusiness: Lettuce Pray | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...delivered. Naville, 33, who was born in Marseilles, began Chinaveg in 2000 by signing contracts with hundreds of farmers, each cultivating less than a tenth of an acre. Chinaveg gave them special seeds and pesticides acceptable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which were demanded by customers like KFC. In turn, the farmers sold the pesticides for a quick profit and ruined the crop with highly toxic replacements. Come harvest, the farmers tried to sell for a higher price on the open market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agribusiness: Lettuce Pray | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

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