Word: supermarket
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...possible that I got burned at unusually busy moments. A good friend of mine does swear by Webvan, even though she lives right next door to a supermarket. It could just be that she has a crush on the delivery guy. Whatever the reason, Webvan's near-inevitable crash and burn is clearly going to be a great loss for many folks around here, just as the untimely passing of Urbanfetch and Kozmo.com - both of which delivered videos, ice cream and munchies to your door within an hour - made a lot of us feel like wearing black. I still...
...this keeps up, food targeted to women may need its own aisle in the supermarket, alongside dairy, paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...
...corridor. "Run! Run!" a second child yelled. A teacher threw a chair at the attacker, who dodged it and then stabbed him. Then the man ran into another classroom, leaving behind a trail of blood, tears and traumatized 7-year-olds. Several children fled the school to a supermarket across the street. The white shirt of one boy's school uniform was drenched in blood. "A strange man came in the school and I got stabbed," the second-grade boy told cashier Ikiyo Irie, as she laid him down on a piece of cardboard. Panicked children from other classrooms raced...
...push a cart up and down the supermarket aisles, drifting like a Stepford wife past shelves dense with a hundred varieties of mayonnaise and a thousand brands of soup and ten thousand variations of orange juice and a hundred thousand nuances of ice cream: All the metaphysical abundance and diversity of the universe organized, canned, packaged, frozen, bar-coded, neatly awaiting the pleasure of our consumption...
...Feelings ran very high. At Macready's opening performance at the Astor Place Opera House, on May 7, partisans of Forrest threw rotten eggs and potatoes. Does this give you ideas? Think of the ammunition available in a supermarket...