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...pies acted as a means to preserve food, and were often used to keep the filling fresh during the winter months. And they didn't make bland pies, either: documents show that the Pilgrims used dried fruit, cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg to season their meats. Further, as the colonies spread out, the pie's role as a means to showcase local ingredients took hold and with it came a proliferation of new, sweet pies. A cookbook from 1796 listed only three types of sweet pies; a cookbook written in the late 1800s featured 8 sweet pie varieties...
...cities are already under pressure, but some have an extra heap of woe. Women's retailer Bon-Ton faces a double challenge: softening sales and a mountain of debt resulting from its $1 billion buyout of 142 stores from Saks two years ago. Even powerhouse Dillard's, with stores spread across 29 states, is raising anxiety owing to weakening sales, down 10% for the quarter. In early November, Standard & Poor's lowered its corporate credit rating of Dillard's to B+ from BB-, citing the "deepening spending pull-back by consumers." Adding to the drama, hedge-fund investors Barington Capital...
Behind her in the church was a photograph of Ben Stiller surrounded by models wearing deer antlers that appeared this year in a Men’s Vogue fashion spread. “I have trouble figuring out what’s real and what’s not real anymore,” she said, to laughter from the audience...
...current drinking age encourages dangerous “binge drinking,” since underage drinkers—unable to drink at bars, restaurants, and many other places—have an incentive to drink hard liquor and consume a great deal of alcohol at once rather than spread out their consumption. Places with the most supervision and thus the safest drinking environments are the least likely to allow underage drinking. The result is that students who drink in their dorm room or off-campus—out of the eye of those who could help them if they overindulge?...
...Considering the mixed messages Capitol Hill sent on Thursday, that seemed the only appropriate approach. First, news spread midday that a group of bipartisan lawmakers had reached an agreement to provide Detroit with an infusion of $25 billion, with a victory press conference to be held at 2:30 p.m. Then, abruptly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid cut the negotiators off at the pass by holding a hastily called press conference of their own in the same Senate room at 2:00 p.m. At that point, the Democratic leaders announced that they would not bring...