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Sheri Schellhaass is a scientist whose version of the Petri dish is a plastic tray displaying Galaxy Blast Fruit Roll-Ups. And she's a foodie, a culinary whiz, in fact, who prefers egg-salad sandwiches for lunch and wears a hairnet at work. If you're part of the foie gras set, stop reading. But if you want yogurt on a stick, you gotta meet...
...NTSB also found problems with the inflatable plastic slides designed to sweep survivors out of a plane: 37% of the time they did not deploy correctly. Some passengers were momentarily unable to get out of Flight 006 when a slide deployed and knocked them sideways. "It seemed like forever before we got untangled and away from the unbearable heat," says Diaz...
...last week to collect "eploid" points from the back of discarded Frito-Lay bags at the fly-by lunch counter. Like children compulsively playing Frogger in order to earn the 1,000 ticket laser wand behind the counter at Chuck E. Cheese, council members hope to scrounge enough oily plastic refuse to successfully bid for a new Gateway computer during a 100 day eploid.com web auction...
...incredibly loyal following. Cult members get their fix whenever possible. People eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert. Some slyly stash mounds of it into plastic bags and Tupperware. When you see it, you just have to eat it. One rarely sees a full bin of it in the servery. It's a precious commodity...
...mainstreaming of Napster - and the capitulation of Big Music to the looming future of a music business without $15 plastic discs - began Tuesday with a surprise deal between the online free-music outlaw and German publishing giant Bertelsmann (home of BMG, one of music's Big Five). The upshot: Napster just changed the "free...