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...seal in food and keep refrigerators smelling fresh. New Hampshire native Earl S. Tupper launched Tupperware in the 1940s, and by the following decade, he was marketing the containers via Tupperware "parties" where salespeople could demonstrate the distinctive "burp" that guaranteed longer lives for leftovers. (Tupperware was a roaring success; Tupper sold the company for $9 million in 1958.) For Americans who didn't want to purchase an entire line of pastel plastic containers, Dow Chemical started selling Saran Wrap in 1953, and Ziploc storage bags...
...Since reforms started 30 years ago, China hasn't been able to keep peasants down on the farm anymore - and that was a resounding sign of success. Now, as Christmas approaches, China's North Pole is shutting down, and millions may have to stream back to the farms. For the leaders in Beijing and in the provinces, that's not success. That's trouble...
...fictional Erlendur's success has spawned a wave of young crime novelists in Iceland. Until Indridason, Icelandic literature consisted primarily of medieval sagas and the somber novels of Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness. Indridason has overcome the skepticism of local critics by taking pains to remain credible to his compatriots: "There are no car chases or explosions. It has to be small scale. You couldn't have five or six murders...
...dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided to make it an annual event...
...Dian Yu ’11, another member of Cabot House. Administrators said that preserving the Harvard-Yale experience while simultaneously creating a safer game environment was the chief motive behind the changes. Despite a lower turnout perhaps attributable to the bitter cold, McCoy called the 2008 match a success. “The people that were there definitely seemed to be enjoying themselves,” he said...