Word: pie
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Lynn and Whitson—who declined several requests for comment—have even used pie charts to explain how men and women rank each other. For men, 60 percent of a woman’s appeal hinges on looks, 30 percent on her sexual voracity and 10 percent on other categories. For women, 50 percent relies on money or power, 40 percent relies on attraction and 10 percent is concerned with, “things women say they care about but don?...
...purpose of patenting the comb-over was to document and preserve it for posterity,” Donald Smith explained in his acceptance speech, after receiving a pie-tin medal and box of cereal. “Comb on, brothers. Comb...
...Wednesdays will be a slightly more upscale Brain Break,” Seley said. “We will feature a bunch of cereals and some nice, high-end desserts like cheesecake and apple pie...
...Gish Jen's witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting pot to be seen...
...table in front of him clear except for a half-eaten piece of blackberry pie, the well-worn home plate from Iowa's Field of Dreams baseball diamond in the aisle next to his seat, Kerry talked about the race, his opponent, his record and his plans--but not about his doubts, if he has any. "I think we are doing extraordinarily well," he told TIME. "I think this is a close race, and it's going to be a close race. I feel very confident in where we are and confident about the direction of this race...