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...years London was a hamburger wasteland. Remember the British take on American diners? Yech. The best most joints could offer was a fatty, premade beef patty lost inside a stale, wan roll. And if the bland, greasy taste didn't drive diners away, mad-cow disease and a backlash against fast food just about wiped hamburgers off London menus. But rejoice, burger lovers: the humble patty on a bun is experiencing a renaissance...
...DIED. TONY MEEHAN, 62, founding member of hit pop band the Shadows; of head injuries sustained in a fall; in London. Seizing on teenagers' infatuation with U.S. rock 'n' roll in the late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...
...hard as they give it to me. It's important that we do that, because we intend to stand our ground with the Chinese and with our bigger neighbors. We are small, we are vulnerable, we can be destroyed. If we don't stand our ground, they'll just roll over...
...communists. They had the same unshakeable conviction that they would triumph. The others?famous doctors, talented musicians and so on?they would trade their food for cigarettes, knowing that if they did that, one morning they would not be able to go out into the cold for the roll call. But they had given up. The communists and the deeply religious fought on and survived. There are some things in the human spirit that are beyond reason...
...negotiations between Victoria's Secret and Forest Ethics continue. "We have been good environmental stewards, and we recognize there is more to be done," says Anthony Hebron, spokesman for Limited Brands. Forest Ethics, meanwhile, is on a roll. It is developing a Do Not Mail campaign, modeled on the Do Not Call registry, to let consumers decide whether they want to be barraged with junk mail. And Paglia wants to change the way catalogs are distributed. "In the Internet age, printing catalogs at this volume is like running cars on a steam engine," he says. "It would be quaint...