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...knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos without scrutinizing either and sent P & G an apologetic note. Therefore, the company insisted, it had not been caught with its hand in the cookie jar...
...assassination of ex-President Alvaro Obregón that led to the founding of the PRI as a coalition of compromise. Yet it is emblematic of Mexico City that the severed hand of General Obregón is still on display in a jar installed in a monument at the site of the restaurant where he was assassinated...
...giving him a generous half-salary subsidy. Even so, he and his wife Gloria, who works at a state unemployment office, go in the hole about $200 a month for his training costs. There is no money in endorsing weights or lifting suits. Amino acids cost $22 a jar, and Winter fortifies himself with a jar every four days. "But the Olympic Committee has asked for my Social Security number," he says, "so perhaps there will be some help up the road." Or, daydreams this chocoholic, maybe Nestlé will come calling with an endorsement offer...
...Wolfgang Petersen's The Neverending Story, it's more like a movie for wimps. Here's this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean...
...insight into the political and social structure of a society that used mathematics, charted the heavens, invented a calendar and constructed elaborate irrigation canals. The wall decorations and inscriptions indicate that the occupant was a member of a ruling family, probably an administrator. Among the artifacts was an unusual jar with a screw-top lid, possibly the earliest twist-open container discovered in the Western Hemisphere...