Exploding a Food Fad
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photograph by Christopher Hirsheimer In his very first cookbook, Alan Hooker’s New Approach to Cooking (Pacific Coast Publishing, 1966), Hooker describes the long-ago invention of atomic muffins (see Atomic Muffins recipe)—still a Ranch House favorite: “Because it is known that at one time I was a very strict vegetarian, I am periodically besieged by one or another of the multitude of food faddists. I seem especially to attract every crackpot with a real food neurosis. One day, after a particularly deadly onslaught complete with reasons why I should eat in what they call the ‘health way’, with great glee I set out to make a concoction that I knew was going to be so horrible that even the most dedicated faddist could not stomach it. I put together everything I had ever heard of that would bring dynamic, vibrant, radiant, bubbling, creative, irritating good health, and then put this potential dynamite into a muffin tin and baked it. I have to report that those muffins turned out to have a marvelous flavor and gave a quite noticeable jolt of energy. But nobody is going to influence me, and I can resist their ideas by refusing to make these abundantly delicious bits of good health. However, there is no reason why you should not try them....”
Laptop Battery
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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