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...food recall has generated over 77,500 news stories. In fact news websites figure heavily in our search patterns. Take the search term "pet food recall." In March of this year, when news of the tainted pet food broke, the top sites visited after searching on the term weren't the manufacturers' sites with recall information; instead they were MSNBC (12.4%), Google News (11.6%) and CBSNews (9.1%). Contrast that with the Mattel toy recall, where media websites were not the most popular search destination. Searches for "toy recall" resulted in visits to Mattel.com (26.4%), The Consumer Product Safety Commission site...
...gone unchallenged for centuries as the world's favorite wine stopper. But like many long-lived gastronomic rites, the custom ran into trouble when globalization kicked into high gear. In the 1990s, world wine production exploded, and to meet demand, cork makers started shipping products that, to many, weren't up to snuff. Increased concern about cork taint led wineries like Bonny Doon to look for new ways to seal their wares. Between 2000 and 2005, the global demand for wine corks dropped about 20%, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report...
Well, a couple of days after seeing Grease, I happened to be sitting around a breakfast-room table with a half-dozen 13-year-old girls. They had just finished watching the sequel to High School Musical on the Disney Channel, and they weren't very thrilled with it. But they were eager to hear about Grease. All of them had watched the reality show, and though a few thought that Derek should have beaten out Max for the role of Danny Zuko, they were dying to see the Broadway revival. Which is sort of what we're going...
...Hollywood, which has made a mint selling toys inspired by its movies for decades, is now selling movies based on toys. And, as if this summer's news that Baby Einstein videos won't necessarily send a newborn to Harvard and toys made in China may cause intestinal damage weren't enough to send parents back to good old teddy bears, it turns out toy movies aren't all that great for kids either...
...supports left him boggled. But he is smart and pleasant and tells the most risqué joke that I've ever heard from a presidential candidate: "I asked Ann, my wife, 'Did you ever in your wildest dreams believe I would be running for President?' She told me, 'You weren't in my wildest dreams.'" He's not in his party's wildest dreams either, but he may well be its future...