Word: devil
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...types, along with 34 toppings, from dried blueberries to praline coconut. Customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their own milk: soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Arizona, flagship "Cereologists"?pajama-clad servers?offer plain old cornflakes as well as such fancy concoctions as Devil Made Me Do It, which combines Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls. On Nov. 29, a Philadelphia outpost is set to open. The chain's slogan? "95% of people like cereal; 57% like sex. We have cereal...
...Almost to a man, the Marines I'm embedded with have all lost friends in this protracted war of attrition. They are eager 'to get some,' to pay [the enemy] back for the car bombs and improvised explosive devices that have killed or maimed so many of their brother 'Devil Dogs...
...enthusiastic pride of going farther than any person has yet been." Though he did just that, and managed to get home again, what Caley and his convict assistants encountered during their three-week expedition would permanently damage his health and later lead him to describe the trip as "the Devil's own journey." The wildness of the barely explored country they scrambled and climbed through was "beyond description," he wrote afterwards. "I cannot give you a more expressive idea than traveling over the tops of the houses in a town...
...Pulling ourselves, scratched and sweating, up a rocky bluff out of what Caley named the Devil's Wilderness, it's easy to imagine why he needed to gather his men that night and urge them, as he recounts in his journal, to continue. When they had arrived at the edge of this plunging valley, Caley noted that it seemed "to bid defiance to any man." Going down was brave, says Ian Brown, who leads the Mount Tomah group. A modest, quietly spoken man with a wry sense of humor, he was one of the three men who in 1997 became...
...brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time...