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...company isn't waiting to see if Mexicans and Kuwaitis like its food - it's already negotiating a deal to expand to the Philippines, and it's exploring options in Canada, Puerto Rico, India and Singapore. As for China itself, "Time will tell," says DeAngelis. But there's at least one food-industry model that suggests that the company may stand a chance at selling Americanized Chinese food to Chinese in China. After pulling out of the Mexican market in 1992, Taco Bell relaunched in the country two years ago and now has plans to expand to 300 outlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.F. Chang's Tries to Woo Diners in Mexico | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...holiday, he impishly instructed kids to tiptoe into their parents' bedroom, take out "green pieces of paper with pictures of guys with beards" and send them to his New York station. The punch line: "And you know what I'm gonna send you? A postcard from Puerto Rico." For that he got suspended. He said that the kids were hipper than his bosses: many sent him Monopoly money. One adult enclosed a few dollars and wrote: "Now go to Puerto Rico." (See an excerpt from Richard Zoglin's book Comedy at the Edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...much that he moves in. When the credit card company calls to verify Jim’s identity, Kevin plays along, pretending to be Jim—but then the company thinks that someone has stolen Jim’s card and is using it in Puerto Rico (where the Halperts are honeymooning). Oh, and Michael, Kevin, and Oscar all try to call Jim and Pam at various points, even though the couple had asked to be left alone. So much for that...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "Mafia" | 10/17/2009 | See Source »

...more than 3,000 applicants) and hopes to train almost 300 per year. One of them, Pete Leahy, 23, a University of Notre Dame graduate, had planned to become a pediatric oncologist. But after taking a year off to work at a health clinic for the poor in Puerto Rico, he's leaning toward primary care. "After that experience," says Leahy, "I think I'd rather be the doctor who impacts a patient's health behavior before it ends up impacting the health-care system." It might not be as glamorous or lucrative as doing breast implants on Ocean Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Florida Medical School's Effort to Boost Primary Care | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Juliane Kaminski of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, began exploring the verbal gifts of dogs when she saw a television show about a border collie named Rico--an animal that to all appearances could fetch dozens of different objects in response to their names. Kaminski put Rico to a rigorous test and confirmed that the dog could learn names for more than 200 toys, balls and other items. "I think Rico is a highly talented dog," says Kaminski, "but we've also found new dogs that do what Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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