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...briefly had to stop promoting the sandwich because outlets were running out of, what else, flatbread. In response to an outcry, McDonald's has changed its cooking oil to cut down on cholesterol-raising trans-fatty acids. Always known more for convenience and kid-friendliness than for taste--except, many would argue, when it comes to its superior fries--McDonald's still has a food problem. Despite shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to install a new made-to-order cooking system that banished heat lamps from the kitchen, McDonald's consistently gets low ratings for the quality...
Smith's narrative is like Adam's diagram: all the pieces seem to fit, but we never feel the animating emotion behind it. We know Alex is driven by unresolved grief and anger, but we don't feel it except at aremove, as when the inebriated hero scrawls out sardonic responses on a hotel feedback form. ("How did you find your sleeping arrangements? Lonely.") We know that Alex's search for Kitty is a spiritual quest because the titles of that section are taken from the Zen parable "Ten Bulls." Nice touch, but it would be better if we knew...
...found the bicycle as he had left it—except for a large metal clamp locking its frame to the building’s railing...
...Gaza settlements, 242 new families have moved in, adding to the 1,155 families there. Only 25 families have left. Twelve years ago, Ophir Cohen left Jerusalem and was one of the first settlers to move to Kfar Darom, a community of Orthodox Jews. All his children, except the eldest, Orit, were born there. From the beginning, the settlement was ringed with machine-gun emplacements. With today's heightened dangers, it is now hedged by tanks and more than 3.5-m concrete barriers. On Nov. 20, 2000, the Cohen children boarded their bus to the nearest school, in a settlement...
...Early Action. Under Early Decision, students make a binding commitment to the institution to which they apply, indicating that school to be their top choice and agreeing to enroll there if accepted. Early Action involves no such binding commitment—it is virtually the same as regular admissions, except of course that the decision is made earlier...