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Usually it's the kids who jump up from the table before the meal is finished. Here the meal runs out the door before little Banjo can eat it, followed by the silverware, plate, table and chair, Banjo and others. As with all runaways, some of the foods in Ahlberg's zany narrative come to a bad end (i.e., get eaten); others take up new lives. Will everything turn out well as Banjo returns home and sits down to his plum-pie dessert--or is it footloose...
...people are going to talk about how we are off-base," he said. "But we are the only ones really willing to step up to the plate...
...They sat on a bench overlooking the city and talked about Moffett's clients. After a few minutes, Moffett gave the Senator his card. By the time the lobbyist got back to his office, the Senator's campaign staff had sent him an invitation to a $1,000-a-plate fund raiser. "When you're holding the chum," says Flake, the Arizona Representative seeking reform, "you can't complain about the sharks...
...spot a car sporting the license plate LOLITA or MINI-PIMP, change lanes. Psychologists at Colorado State University have found that people who give their car a name or gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than...
...make Cambridge the Beverly Hills of Boston,” Salaverria said. Jose Edwards, a student of the Kennedy School of Government, described the service as fast and the prices affordable, but when asked if he would be back, he responded after a long stare at his empty plate: “I don’t like American food.” He’s from Chile. Salaverria later engaged in a conversation with the Chilean visitor, who added a dash of foreign flavor to the International House. Salaverria explained that the franchise is very popular in America...