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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toast Cinnamon Sugar bagels at Bruegger's because they claim the toaster will burst into flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...dough, it's good, it's golden brown, it'll take your tummy all the way down. It's delicious, it's nutritious, it'll really make you feel ambitious. Hey don't you be superstitious when I make fried dough it's no coast to coast like buttered toast and I'm your host and that's the most...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: FRIED DOUGH IS GOOD FOR YOU | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Last month Hallmark delivered a different kind of greeting to its competitors: "You're toast." The company launched a new 99[cents] line, undercutting the basic price by a buck, and threw a $50 million ad campaign behind the new product. (Tag line: "Why not?") Hallmark too is trying to ignite sales in its 20,000 mass-market retail outlets and erase any notion consumers might have that it's a high-priced product. But the move--remember Marlboro Friday, when market leader Philip Morris cut the price of smokes?--will fall heavily on its struggling rivals, who can least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roses Are Red, Card Sellers Blue | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Hubble's astronomical triumphs earned him worldwide scientific honors and made him the toast of Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s--the confidant of Aldous Huxley and a friend to Charlie Chaplin, Helen Hayes and William Randolph Hearst. Yet nobody (except perhaps Hubble) could have imagined such a future when the 23-year-old Oxford graduate began his first job, in New Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomer Edwin Hubble | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Fermi allowed himself a grin. He had proved the science of a chain reaction in uranium; from then on, building a bomb was mere engineering. He shut the pile down after 28 minutes of operation. Wigner had thought to buy a celebratory fiasco of Chianti, which supplied a toast. "For some time we had known that we were about to unlock a giant," Wigner would write. "Still, we could not escape an eerie feeling when we knew we had actually done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Physicist: ENRICO FERMI | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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