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...years ago this month, Charles Whitman climbed a tower on the University of Texas campus at Austin and gunned down 14 people. The bloodiest rampage by a lone gunman on a single day was waged by James Oliver Huberty, who murdered 21 victims, many of them children, in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., in 1984. In the past two decades, random mass slayings have become increasingly common in the U.S. It is a phenomenon peculiar to the late 20th century: a single twisted soul / slaughtering near or total strangers, acting on a vague, incomprehensible motive. Like...
...incomplete snapshot of any given moment of sound. "The woodwinds all sound alike," claims Pearson. "You can't tell the difference between one string or the other, and you can't tell if what you're hearing is a horn or a trumpet. Digital audio is like McDonald's hamburgers. It's all alike...
...acquire Kentucky Fried Chicken, now owned by RJR Nabisco, for about $850 million. If the deal goes through, the purchase of the 6,500 KFC restaurants will give PepsiCo, which already owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, some 14,000 fast-food outlets, more than any other chain. McDonald's, with 9,000 stores, is the current leader...
...minutes, but finding out what they are actually eating usually involves a correspondence with company headquarters. Last week, though, five major chains bowed to longtime demands from consumer groups and more recent pressure from the attorney generals of New York, California and Texas for on-site fast-food labeling. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Jack in the Box confirmed that listings of ingredients and nutritional content of all menu items will soon be available at numerous outlets...
...cheerfully in my seat as I had now solved a few of the world's major problems. What could go wrong? McDonald's would never lose business over a few pickles. With billions and billions of hamburgers, that would translate into trillions of pickles and at least millions of dollars. In addition, it would all be tax deductible as charitable donations. There was no possible reason not to adopt the plan, except they did not know...