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...Regionality is very important," acknowledges James Green, a vice president of N.S. Khalsa, the Oregon producer of the decent if not distinctive Kettle Chips. "Oregonians like the fact that they are eating chips made from potatoes grown in this state." In Pennsylvania Dutch country, said to be the capital of potato-chip production, Michael Rice, president of Utz Quality Foods, uses cottonseed oil to fry his delicately satisfying line of smooth and ridged chips. But three years ago he introduced a fried-in-lard adaptation of the original potato chip developed by his grandparents in 1921. "Grandma Utz's chips...
There were a fair share of shaggy beards, silver-winged baseball caps and even one turban, worn by a Montana-born programmer who now calls himself Sat Tara Singh Khalsa. But for the most part the hackers looked more like backpackers or professional musicians than any stereotype image of computer nerds. By day, they met for discussions and debates that included a face-off between Bonn Parker, a computer-crime expert, and John Draper, the legendary "Cap'n Crunch," who developed a system for making free phone calls by using the toy whistle from a breakfast-cereal...
...Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people being persecuted by Mogul warlords, Gobind formed a fierce fraternity of "warriors of God" known as the Khalsa (Pure...
...signify commitment to truth and freedom from life's "entanglements." Each Sikh also cariesa kauga, or comb, to symbolize cleanliness, and a small sword called a kirpan to defend neighbors and the family. "We dress alike to stand out and to reaffirm our brotherhood," says Guru Datta Singh Khalsa, a waiter at the Golden Temple Restaurant...
...LAST OF THE FAITH'S TEN gurus, Guru Gobin Singh, created this khalsa or spiritual brotherhood and prescribed his devotees' dress just before he "left the world" in 1708. He followed a line of gurus dating back to the faith's founder, Guru Nanak, born in northern India in 1469. Nanak saw the hypocrisy of Islam, Hinduism, and the caste system, Mahan Singh says. He says Nanak hoped to turn the tide of the spiritual anarchy by imploring people to bow only before God and to link themselves to the guru. Today, although the faith's chief guru, Siri Singh...