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...Atlanta in 1980 - when it carried the delightfully whimsical name T.J. Applebee's Rx for Edibles & Elixirs - Applebee's has become a beast. "With nearly 1,700 restaurants," applebees.com says, "it is the largest casual dining restaurant concept in the world" (Ruby Tuesday, by comparison, has just 880 locations). Note the language: Applebee's is much more concept than restaurant. It serves food grounded in no particular ethnic or regional cuisine in settings bewilderingly overstuffed with pop-culture images and gimcrack Americana. The following items are affixed to the walls of the Jamestown Applebee...
...With its large army and its overwhelming firepower, Israel will eventually pry the Hizballah militants off the Lebanese border. The problem is it could take weeks, or longer. In recent days, a note of caution has crept into the soundbites of various Israeli military officers. Gone are the boasts that Hizballah will be hammered into oblivion. Instead, they're urging diplomacy and calling for the presence of a robust international peace-keeping force along the border to halt Hizballah's rocketmen. Meanwhile, as casualties rise, many of Israel' s formidable chariots of war are being pressed into ambulance service...
...money-laundering strategy good enough for that much cash, in pounds sterling. First, the crooks needed to reduce the bulk of their haul, because less is more when it comes to transport and security. If the entire $97 million had been, conveniently, in Britain's largest ?50 ($92) notes, the robbers would have had to cope with 1.06 million pieces of paper, weighing over 500 kg and stacking over 40 storeys high. As it turns out, the cache included tens and twenties, which multiplies the bulk by three or four or five. Sure, the robbers have bragging rights - this...
...always easy to listen to Senators bloviating. Yet last week Ben Bernanke, the mild-mannered economist who is approaching his six-month mark as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, looked as focused as a patient parent listening to a child. Tom Carper, a Senator from Delaware, took note of Bernanke's attentiveness. One departed Cabinet secretary, Carper said, used to appear before Congress and "sit there with papers spread all around him and read this and that." Not Bernanke. "You listen to everyone," Carper said in amazement. And so Carper couldn't help bringing up the obvious question: "What...
...some species are thriving) but there are fewer varieties, and that is not good news. An ecosystem with fewer species is like a baseball team with only a couple of good pitchers: there isn't much to fall back on if one goes out of commission. One small positive note is that the disappearing species are mostly picky bees that pollinate just a few plants. The survivors tend to be the versatile generalists--those that pollinate a variety...