Word: mocha
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...Most of the grande mocha lattes that Harvard students sip are made from the beans of farmers abroad who live in extreme poverty...
...steel-mill town of Munster, Ind., members of the Family Christian Center don't have to go very far to order a tall vanilla latte or a grande cafe mocha. The church has opened a Starbucks right in its lobby. The coffee bar, above, part of the church's Heavenly Grounds Cafe & Bookstore, doesn't sell much coffee--about 200 cups a week--but that's not the point. "It tears down walls and the perception that church is stuffy and cold," says Melodye Munsey, co-pastor (with her husband Steve) of the 6,000-member nondenominational church. "People...
Fifi isn't counting on men for everything. She's an independent girl. Sometimes she goes to Starbucks alone and drinks her caffe mocha without talking to a single guy. And she's made money, too, thousands of dollars, by dabbling in the stock market. It's the first thing she does when she wakes up at noon, even before she checks out the latest computer game or heads to the mall to keep track of her favorite fashions. Fifi's parents were upset when she decided not to attend university, but when she made a pile of money...
...sits down, mocha in hand, in a ridiculously comfortable chair, she looks up at the wall and--Lo! and Behold! Three books on the topic she had thoughtlessly e-mailed in weeks before! Saved by the House library, she finishes her paper before Stein Club...
...Seekers of the Perfect Cup, from the people who made the vente mocha Frappuccino as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into...