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...pricing of McDonald's, highlighted by dollar-menu items like apple pies, side salads and yogurt, plus cheap combo meals - burger or sandwich, fries and a drink - is a key strength during the recession. In particular, consumers are fleeing casual, family chain restaurants for the convenience and savings of fast food. (Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, and Burger King have also seen sales growth, though at smaller levels than McDonald's.) Casual-dining joints are reeling: P.F. Chang's and the Cheesecake Factory, for example, saw their third-quarter 2008 profits fall...
Joining Pepsi's quest for O-mentum are advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...
...huggers," was telling them how to manage their neighborhood. "I like butterflies, especially when you catch them while they are still caterpillars. Deep fried and dipped in a little honey mustard sauce, they are delicious," quipped a columnist for the Daily News in nearby Alamogordo, admitting a particular fondness for those from Cloudcroft, which are "sort of spicy." Long-term negotiations to annex national-forest acreage for municipal use would be complicated by Endangered Species Act protection. "People are not happy," says former village trustee Gary Wood. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...important to me, and poets in the Rolodex who have addressed the moment in language that is fresh and not hackneyed or corny. I've gone back to poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Auden and Seamus Heaney. But I've also had to put them aside, Brooks in particular, because I kept looking at great lines and thinking, She already - I can't do that! At the end of the day, your job is to listen to your own music...
...Rwanda, that's a particular problem. In December an expert's panel report to the U.N. Security Council accused Rwanda of supplying weapons, uniforms and men to Nkunda's rebels. Rwanda's initial response to the allegations was an angry denial. "This report is a calculated move to shift blame away from the government of DRC [Congo] and the international community - both of whom have failed to resolve the conflict in the eastern DRC despite numerous bilateral, regional and international initiatives in the last 14 years," read a Rwandan government statement. Tuesday's invasion can be seen as a follow...