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Saturday night at the Cheesecake Factory in Atlanta: the restaurant is packed with customers waiting up to an hour and a half to stuff themselves with slices of fat-laden cheesecake so thick that most will be forced to take home a doggy bag. A half-pound slice of cheesecake may contain 700 calories -- roughly a third of an adult's recommended daily allowance.Manager Michael Moore notes that the Factory's reduced-calorie cheesecakes languished on the shelves when they were introduced last year. "If people want cheesecake, they don't want 'lite,"' he says. "They come to our restaurant...
...advent of agriculture upset the balance of nature, creating food & surpluses. And the practice of fattening animals for slaughter consolidated those surpluses into the dietary equivalent of a gold brick: the thick juicy steak, marbled with...
...others. His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest. It lifts up, and underneath there is a small container for a couple of prayer books and a big stack of intentions, written on yellow sheets. Last month the stack was 200 sheets thick, and the one on the top had nine different names written on it, including that of a 17-year-old Italian boy with cancer, an Italian mother of three who was very sick and an American child...
...sheep wore academic gowns and delivered lectures. They "measured the sea with a stick./ Then, raising their hoofs in triumph, they cried:/ 'We say with a certain amount of pride,/ If the ocean were stood up on its side/ You would see that it's deep but not thick...
...thick of the holiday travel season, American Eagle today grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...