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Five years ago, two big-city businessmen visited Dale Humphrey, mayor of a small town called Popcorn, Ind. (pop. about 50). They had just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...
...from local favorites into global brands--a knack for taking an ordinary but well-liked food and tarting it up into a premium product. Dale and Thomas sells more than 100 popcorn flavors, from Chocolate Chunk N' Caramel to Sweet Georgia Pecan, and each bowl can by customized with "pop-ins"--sweets like fudge or jelly beans that customers can add to their popcorn. A regular- size bag with the works costs about $6. "Popcorn is a commodity," Struhl says. "We made it into an experience...
...fare. Weekdays are twice as nice with an additional happy hour from 9 to 11:30 p.m.. The well-known Sunday Seven kicks it up a notch from 8 to 11:30 p.m., offering seven snacks—from burgers to pasta—at only $2 a pop with a drink order. But before you tell the dining hall staff to shove off, remember: at Grendel’s, you often get what you pay for. The food sometimes seems pre-made and haphazardly thrown together. But then again, you can’t deny the college mantra...
...jargon, requires a sedated patient. It is unquestionably the most athletically challenging of all medical procedures. Two people hold the patient down, the orthopedist climbs up on the stretcher, bends the knee, picks up the thigh and then uses a combination of delicate manipulation and great brute force to pop the hip back. My back always hurts for a week after I do one. Spasms of the huge muscles around the patient's hip must be controlled with intravenous sedation - or else the entire procedure has to be done in the operating room under general anesthesia. But taking Nick...
...wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed on about sterilizing old wine bottles, I felt his new old hip pop back into place. The leg came out to length and was straight again. Everyone was relieved - everyone but Nick, who seemed a little annoyed that I was leaving to order another x-ray. He was just getting to the important part about the yeast...