Word: taco
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When a crowd armed with donuts and taco sauce gathered at the San Francisco Chronicle's office last Thursday, they were prepared for spicy, sugary violence over the loss of their favorite daily comic strip. A reader poll had shown Bill Griffith's "Zippy the Pinhead" to be unpopular despite having first appeared as a daily in San Francisco over fifteen years ago. Had the city changed so much that it could no longer tolerate the strip's non-conformist structure and idiosyncratic ramblings? Most of America doesn't understand "Zippy," the best daily comic strip printed today. Here...
...same time, hundreds of cash-strapped school districts around the country have turned to soft-drink bottlers, who offer as much as $100,000 a year for exclusive "pouring" contracts to place vending machines in school hallways. Principals have opened their cafeterias to such fast-food franchises as Taco Bell and Burger King. "If your task was to make the American child as unhealthy as possible, could you do much better than fast food and soft drinks in the cafeterias?" asks Kelly Brownell, a psychologist at Yale University...
Nicole has begun jostling her own memory as well. She wants the pain for its intimacy. She has been eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter, Greg's favorite combination, and shocked herself by craving Taco Bell, food he loved but she had long disdained. On Thanksgiving, after having turkey at her parents' house and dessert with Greg's family, she might just eat a late-night peanut-butter sandwich as he used to do. On Oct. 8, she watched a home video for the first time. Greg was offscreen, but that was precisely the point: all she wanted...
...growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives this year. Blockbuster and 7-Eleven are expected to follow soon...
About 400 customers at KFC and Taco Bell restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are testing an m-commerce system created by 2Scoot, based in Kingston, N.Y. In July 2Scoot signed a deal with Nokia to bring cashless payments to the lunch counter at the Finnish cell-phone giant's U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas...