Word: lunch
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...beneath one of France's most treasured cultural meccas - the Louvre - but the news has hardly caused a stir in the City of Light. Bank employee Laurent Mortin told the New York Times he didn't have a problem with the American import: "It's more of a real lunch than eating a sandwich in the street, and it doesn't take as much time as sitting in a restaurant...
...just trying to eat lunch...
...special guest will be making an appearance too. Former NBA player Doug Collins, who has coached the Bulls, the Pistons, and the Wiz (including Michael Jordan, twice!!!) and is now an analyst for TNT, will be lecturing and answering questions in the afternoon, after a free catered lunch...
...Adler and a crew that provided the laughter (Sales rarely worked before a live audience), he adapted the hip lunacy of TV's avant-comic Ernie Kovacs to his own sunny personality, frequently telling his viewers, "I love you and give ya a big kiss." They returned the affection. Lunch with Soupy Sales soon gained converts of all ages and went national in 1959. For a brief spell in the early '60s, he was a prime-time star; Frank Sinatra showed up to get a pie in the face. (See a pictorial history of stand-up comedy...
...says that because cultural factors tend to have a much more prominent impact than natural selection in the shaping of future generations, people tend to write off the effect of evolution. "Those changes we predict for 2409 could be wiped out by something as simple as a new school-lunch program. But whatever happens, it's likely that in 2409, Framingham women will be 2 cm shorter and 1 kg heavier than they would have been without natural selection. Evolution is a very slow process. We don't see it if we look at our grandparents, but it's there...