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...string of McDonald's stores in France, the hamburger finally took off in Paris in 1976. Dayan's outlets became some of the busiest restaurants in the world, and his 14 stores netted annual sales revenues of more than 30 million. Until the French began to ditch escargot for Egg McMuffins, McDonald's home office in Oakbrook, Illinois had left Dayan virtually alone. But as profits increased, Dayan argues, so did the desire on the part of company executives to repossess his suddenly prosperous market. In 1977, McDonald's began to send inspectors to Paris. After several attempts...
...affordable to the average Pole are the so-called free markets, which the government traditionally has ignored. These extralegal bazaars are operated as private enterprises by farmers or nimble entrepreneurs who offer abundant quantities of fruits and vegetables at prices slightly higher than the state stores. A free-market egg costs about 40?, for example, compared with 30? for one in a state store. The more wealthy city dweller may drive out into the country and buy meat directly and illegally from a farmer. One Gdansk bureaucrat admits that he and a neighbor buy whole pigs and then salt...
...creatures bided their time, for 115 million years, until the disappearance of dinosaurs and other reptiles allowed them to evolve thousands of different shapes and sizes. Significantly, the Arizona find adds a third major branch of mammals to the two that had previously been identified: one resulted in the egg-laying platypus and the spiny anteater of today; the other led to all modern animals that produce live young. The new branch may have been a zoological dead end, but its discovery illustrates the extraordinary precariousness and complexity of the evolutionary process...
...span 9 ft.-at a bird only another condor could love: an ungainly, 20-lb. female, with lugubrious black feathers, yellow eyes and a bald, orange head. She coyly nibbles at his neck, and off they fly, monogamous partners for life. They will produce a single 4½-in. egg every two years, and their ugly infant will be dependent upon them for a year-or until he is old enough to find carrion for himself...
...Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store sun dress and dark glasses held together by a safety pin. She is a fan of egg creams (a New York soft drink made of seltzer, chocolate syrup, milk and, of course, no eggs), and a resolute rider of subways; if the middle class and the rich don't use the subways, she argues, they will continue to fall apart and so will her beloved city. Streep...