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...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 of its food. In a 2001 consumer survey conducted by Sandelman & Associates, the company came in dead last out of 60 chains for taste and quality of ingredients...
...counter or the all-important drive through, which accounts for about half the chain's sales. A small but vocal number of franchisees - who invested thousands of their own dollars in the kitchen changes - are seething. And customers are also losing patience. "Since they took away the heat lamps, it takes forever - and the food still isn't hot," an Atlanta lawyer groused at a McDonald's on Peachtree Street...
...blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into a shipping container and ferried to Sheberghan by troops loyal to warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Hundreds died in the heat inside those metal boxes. Shown pictures of the prisoners, Nurzai names three he recognizes. "I was an innocent," he says, claiming he had been conscripted into the Taliban army months earlier. But moments later he admits he volunteered for service four years...
Beyond the subcontinent and Central Asia, al-Qaeda is feeling the heat. Since last September, nearly 3,000 people suspected of involvement in al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups have been arrested. European governments--some of which were aggressively dismissive of the terrorist threat a year ago--are now actively involved in the crackdown. They've done a "fantastic job," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism analyst at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, "unearthing cells, sharing intelligence, doing pre-emptive arrests and raids." An American diplomat in Europe adds that law-enforcement authorities in Southeast Asia are cooperating with...
...countercurrent, so their memory is retained. And these chips have other advantages. Schmergel says that within three years, Nantero can bring to market chips with NRAM that can store 10 times as much data as a silicon chip the same size while operating faster and with less heat. "They're not saying much publicly about their approach," says Steven Glapa, president of the nano-consulting firm In Realis, "but what they're promising sounds pretty breathtaking...