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...Pizza Hut in Asia in 1980 in the beach resort of Pattaya, southeast of Bangkok. "It was a daring move," says Kitti Naktisuwan, an analyst with ABN AMRO Asia Securities. It was also the right move at the right time. Thais flocked to sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market. But after a 20-year relationship, Heinecke and U.S.-based Tricon Global Restaurants, owner of the Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...revelation. James has never considered food in any terms more complicated than hungry, full, yum, yuck. I--and, I would venture to say, most of my female friends--have had as confused and complex a relationship with food as with many a human being...
...Iowa that I panicked about the pitch. In a stroke of dumb luck, I found myself seated next to Matt Goeke, an 11-year-old Little League player who agreed to serve, in a limited, seated capacity, as my pitching coach. He gave me a piece of Bubble Yum, the official gum of Major League Baseball, to chew on the mound. He also drew some diagrams, mostly of a baseball and where the stitches are. "Don't try to be somebody else. Don't try to gun it. Get your own good windup," he advised, until I informed him that...
...doubt an increase in aid will help the graduate program of the Math Department and will make it more competitive," said Yum-Tong Siu, chair of the Department of Mathematics...
...Make sure what you're taking is pure. Last May the FDA verified industry reports that certain shipments of ginseng were contaminated with high levels of a fungicide. Elaine Kang-Yum, a pharmacist at the Hudson Valley Poison Control Center in Tarrytown, N.Y., who tracks herbal medicines, says some imported Chinese remedies have been doped with Valium or other prescription drugs...