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They bear little resemblance to Mercury, the Roman god with the winged sandals, but they move with heroic speed. Clad in their red, white and blue polyester uniforms, the drivers for Domino's Pizza spring from their vehicles with cardboard cartons and sprint up the sidewalks of millions of U.S. homes. Customers often clock them to the second, since the 2,000-shop chain promises a discount if the pie takes longer than 30 minutes to arrive. To help drive home the point, Domino's sponsored a race car that finished fifth in the Indianapolis 500, with Al Unser...
...gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums of honeyed cardboard. Given the size and messiness of these concoctions, it is hard to imagine that an individual could consume a whole one at a sitting. Nonetheless, people do just that, either at the tiny counter of the shop in the mall or back at home after reviving the stiffening rolls...
Demonstrators outside the buildings held banners, wore cardboard gravestones of people killed by the Contras, and carried signs with facts about Nicaragua. A banner hanging from a nearby rooftop read: "Help Wanted--terrorists, torturers, rapists, murderers for Contra army. Apply at Central Intelligence Agency, 30 Winter St, Boston...
...cost efficient, or so the East Germans apparently think. Last week the West German government reported that East Germany has abandoned its attempt to man with armed guards the more than 700 watchtowers along the roughly 850-mile German border. Instead, the East Germans are now using life-size cardboard soldiers to scare off would-be Western invaders--and potential defectors. How many of the tower guards are bogus is anyone's guess. "Sometimes they are placed in the towers for only a few hours," says a spokesman for the West German border police. "The idea is to give...
...shanties were torn down early this week, while members of the student activist group Stanford Out of South Africa took shelter from a rain storm, said senior Lisa L. Lynch, an editor of The Stanford Daily. The pro-divestment group Thursday rebuilt the two-structure shantytown out of cardboard boxes, Lynch said...