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...played for the audience secretly taped meetings of top executives from ADM, the company that billed itself "The Supermarket to the World...
...Being a geeky engineer, I came home and put everything into a spreadsheet," says Phillips, 35, who had spent five years saving miles to fly Cindy and himself to Europe. With this deal, they could take their two daughters along, and so within days he had cleaned out every supermarket chain in the Sacramento area, unable to stop himself until he had bought practically enough pudding to fly business class to Mars. In the end, he had spent $3,000 on 12,150 cups of pudding, accumulating 1.25 million miles. (He also donated most of the pudding to charity, qualifying...
...space. Penn was fired. Brazile slashed salaries, including her own, so that the money could be spent on campaign workers in Iowa and New Hampshire. Aides started rooming together on the road and even gave up their catered lunches, making do with cold cuts from the nearest supermarket. The motorcades were scaled back, and Gore switched from photo ops to town meetings, where his command of the issues could shine. Instead of staging events in the afternoon, to make the evening news, he began doing them at night, to make contact with voters. The campaign canvassed New Hampshire by phone...
...teenager, you and Beau would drive to supermarket parking lots, stage a fight to attract a crowd and recite scenes from Catcher in the Rye. Mark David Chapman wasn't that messed...
...Obsessions are fine, but every minute you spend online--playing chess, talking politics or just shopping--is a minute you're not spending off-line. And it is off-line, in the real world, where we find a precious social resource, people we have little in common with. The supermarket checkout lady, the librarian, the shoppers at the mall--all are handy reminders of the larger community we're part of--multicultural, socioeconomically diverse yet bound by a common nature...