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Outside, the boys regaled a quickly swelling crowd with their rendition of “Wonderwall” until one of the “Pod People”—for the uninitiated, a person living in a single—screamed at them for interrupting her studying. The entire entryway may have been awake, but not everyone was amused...
Ultimately, Nestle settled on three aguas frescas: a simple strawberry, a more complicated tamarind drink (made from a tart, vanilla-bean-like pod) and an exceedingly complex horchata, made from rice, cinnamon and other spices. "Everyone has their own family recipe for horchata," says food developer Vida Leong. "We mixed and blended for weeks until we matched what we considered the gold standard." So far, their efforts are paying off. The three aguas frescas have been doing well in California and Arizona and will roll out around the country in the months to come...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...tiny catalog business selling suits made by a New Hampshire sample maker out of fabric Matthias bought retail. The first catalog brought in $3,000 in sales. Last year the enterprise, which now includes 1,000 stores in three price ranges (Motherhood, Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod), grossed half a billion dollars...
...retailers. However, this is the cult of Abercrombie. Kids wants to be the models that grace the pages of the A&F Quarterly and adults want to do them. And, if you want to get in on the action, there may be an opening (and perhaps even an escape pod to the planet Ab) with your name on it. Just make sure to get in a few thousand sit-ups before the interview...