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...stores nationwide, compared to McDonald's roughly 3,750. But there's no denying that Burger King now offers the biggest burger in town. This month, the American fast food chain, in an oddball marketing tie-up with Microsoft, launched the Windows 7 Whopper, a 5-inch (12 cm) tower of meat stacked with seven beef patties and weighing nearly a kilogram - more if slathered with ketchup. The magnitude of meat has evidently blown the idea of a traditional lunch of fish and rice from the minds of men in their 20s and 30s, the main consumer...
...present capital, Zanzibar City, and is a UNESCO World Heritage area. The showpiece is the waterfront, a line of whitewashed palaces and forts beside clear, green waters. Here the British Old Dispensary sits next to Portuguese cannons, a fort built by Omani Arabs, and the Victorian clock tower of the Beit al-Ajaib - the first building in Africa with running water, electricity and a lift...
...rule book." But art historian Didier Rykner believes that France's "political and diplomatic" objectives may have come into play. Since last year, President Nicolas Sarkozy has been trying to win multibillion-dollar energy deals with Qatar and new investment from the Persian Gulf. (See pictures of the Eiffel Tower...
...That is the question central to the growing storm of controversy surrounding Jean Sarkozy's bid to become president of the Public Management Establishment of La Défense (EPAD) - the modern, tower-filled financial and corporate district just west of Paris. Supporters of Sarkozy fils note that despite his tender age and incomplete studies, Jean ran for and won a regional counselor's post in 2008 in the area that includes La Défense. The following year, they point out, he was elected president of that body's ruling center-right majority. That electoral record makes his ambition...
...Created a tent city to house more inmates at lower cost. Installed a neon sign on a guard tower that reads "Vacancy...