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...99¢ chicken sandwich. The situation got so bad that Wendy's had to launch its latest innovation, an entrée-size fruit salad, in February--not exactly when most people are yearning for a slice of cantaloupe--because it knew that McDonald's was launching an apple-and-walnut salad in May. Even Schuessler concedes that archrival McDonald's strategy has been a success. "I give them a lot of credit," he says. "They've really improved the quality of their food...
DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across...
MARISA SAMUELS Walnut Creek, Calif...
Meanwhile, private citizens can take a number of steps to combat possible radon pollution. They can order testing devices called Track Etch from Terradex, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based firm. If homeowners then detect dangerous concentrations of radon indoors, they should seal cracks and openings in basements with epoxy sealants, ventilate buildings with heat exchangers, and remove indoor airborne dust with high-quality air-cleaning systems. Average cost to radonproof a house: $1,000 to $5,000. Unfortunately homeowners must bear the cost. Many insurance companies have said that they are not liable for radon contamination, and because the substance...
...Anatolian Seljuk ruler Sultan Ala'al-Din Kay Qubad, who died in 1237, and is unique in its simple composition and color scheme. Simplicity was not an effect sought or achieved by the imperial architect Sinan, who designed the magnificent 16th century doors on display. Fashioned from walnut and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, ebony and ivory, these were made for Sultan Murad III's pavilion in the harem area of the Topkapi Palace. A synthesis of art and architecture dates to the Timurid-Turkmen period (1370-1506). Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, came from Samarkand, Uzbekistan...