Word: pies
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...After languishing for decades in county fair pie-eating obscurity, the sport rediscovered legitimacy in the mid-1990s when two brothers, George and Richard Shea, took over Nathan's publicity. They increased the hot dog contest's attendance from the hundreds to the thousands, and other restaurants jumped on the trend. The Sheas founded the International Federation of Competitive Eating (since retitled Major League Eating) to oversee the events. They now host 80 to 100 competitions a year, featuring everything from deep fried asparagus to tiramisu. The top events are broadcast live on ESPN; last spring, Nintendo announced a competitive...
...Light ends with the words "St. Louis, Missouri," it's a shot in the arm for the hometown, which is why more than 45,000 people, including the mayor of St. Louis and the governor of Missouri, have already signed an electronic petition at SaveAB.com. "Like baseball, apple pie and ice-cold beer (wrapped in a red, white and blue label), Anheuser-Busch is an American original," the manifesto declares. (Tight-lipped A-B says it had nothing to do with the petition drive...
...reason I quit was so I could stay at decent hotels. Nice hotels in the U.S. went completely nonsmoking. That said, I don't suggest that anyone quit smoking. I love the smell of smoke. Cigarettes smell really good to me. They smell like an apple pie baking...
...Health’s “A Broken Pipeline,” which pushes for higher funding levels, the Academy’s study focuses on the distribution of funding, which Berlowitz said is more important than the actual funding level itself. “Even if the pie is small, it is important that these particular groups have their fair share of the pie,” Berlowitz said. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...declining reserves in some countries and political decisions in others.” At the same time, the energy needs of Third World countries will increase dramatically thanks to economic development, increasing urbanization, and industrialization. So a large group will be fighting for a smaller pie...