Word: potatoes
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After the pies were baked and cooled, the volunteers sorted them into boxes and sent to them to the Boston Park Plaza hotel, where the pies joined legions of apple, pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato pies from other area businesses...
...white meat to dark in its chicken burgers. "Foreign visitors have complained," admits Qun Wang Jamieson, KFC public-affairs director of greater China. But sales of the sandwiches have doubled since the switch. KFC also discovered that side dishes that work in the West, such as coleslaw and mashed potato, aren't popular in China. The company is currently replacing its traditional sides with seasonal vegetables, including a salad of shredded carrot, fungus and bamboo shoot. Other items tailored for the mainland include congee (rice porridge) and a soup made of spinach, egg and tomato. "We live here...
...making everyone's computers susceptible to the same flaws (you need only note the $2 billion in losses caused by the Sobig worm to understand). Critics point to parallels in the natural world to explain what happens when life becomes too dependent on a single source. "The Irish potato famine killed a country. The boll weevil killed an economy," Geer said. "It is self-evident that the desktops of the world are clones ripe for the slaughter"--unless they are Macs or run the open-source Linux software, both underdogs that hackers are less likely to subvert. The latter...
...quantity. No one ever wants to stop after a couple of chocolate truffles. And I have yet to see someone put down a bag of chips after just taking a single one. Actually, I lie. I did that once, when I found out that the chips were not potato at all, but some sinister science experiment called Terra Chips, where multi-colored strips of cardboard are flash-fried, salted and served as “vegetable chips.” But, in general, you get the picture...
...public endurance test to display "the ultimate work of art ... human suffering." Upon exiting his box, the frail showman burst into tears. Blaine, who had lost nearly 60 lbs., was rushed to a hospital and given nutritional drinks before being allowed his first solid food, a handful of potato chips. Doctors say it may take months before the illusionist fully recovers from his weeks of deprivation. His starvation for attention, however, appears to be chronic...