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...Recently, Hebron parked his truck in front of a North Side Chicago health-food store and began carrying crates filled with brown eggs and pasture-raised beef and pork into the shop for co-op members. He had to distribute the milk, however, out of the back of his truck - a rule the store's owner, Paula Campanio, reluctantly imposed after the raid. "I'm trying to be discreet," she says. "When I see a police car go by, I'm convinced they're coming for me." Demand from her customers for the milk is strong enough that...
...weren't for the pink door handle shaped like the letter D at the new Dunkin' Donuts shop in Sarasota, Fla., you might think you had stumbled into a Starbucks. Bags of beans and oversize coffee mugs near the door? Check. A waiting area for lattes and cappuccinos? Check. Heck, there's even free wi-fi and a rack of gift cards by the register...
...over nervous owners, Dunkin' is pointing south, to Sarasota. At the prototype store, franchise partners Marvin Kaplan, Kevin Millard and Shawn Cabral say new chicken biscuits, flatbreads and pizzas account for 10% of sales. Their shop, close to popular Siesta Key Beach, is packed by 10 a.m. on weekends. It opened on Jan. 26 and is already beating sales at their other store, which is about a mile farther from the beach and brings in $1.2 million a year, according to Cabral. With more than 5,000 customers turning out for the first week and the average sale totaling...
...noticed as he looked in at the clockmaker's, but precisely seven past five--no, seven minutes forty-three, -four, forty-five seconds past. He had been writing all afternoon about "the useful tyranny of clock time," and here it was, displayed two dozen different ways in a shop window on his own block. Today he had scribbled out his theory that because watches in every pocket and clocks in every factory and railroad station had stimulated in people an acute awareness of time passing, that itchy new awareness had in turn stimulated the popular impatience with the status...
...movie.”According to Snyder, Butler’s enthusiasm also helped him get cast as Leonidas, the Spartan king who leads a band of 300 men to fight a Persian force of a million. When Butler and Snyder first met in a coffee shop on Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard to discuss the script, Butler came with his character already prepared.“When he showed up, he stomped around the coffee shop and he was acting like Leonidas,” Snyder recalls.The director shot the film in only 60 days. Because everything...