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Forty years ago, Philadelphia's Aramark Corp. won its first Olympic prize - it was hired to feed the athletes at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City. This long-running Olympic role has become part of the culture of Aramark.
Cream cheese has a special place in the hearts (and probably arteries) of Philadelphians.
So when the Food and Drug Administration moves to shut down a cream cheese production line in Philadelphia it gets my attention. That's what the FDA did earlier this week when it took action against Lifeway Foods Inc., of Morton Grove, Ill., citing its "extensive history of violations." |
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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, San Francisco, says Wachovia Bank has agreed to lend $50 million to turn the Architect’s Building, 117 South 17th St., near Rittenhouse Square, into a 230-room Hotel Palomar, with a ground-floor restaura
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If you're worried about how you're going to look in a bathing suit this summer, perhaps video games deserve some of the blame. You know, too much Grand Theft Auto IV, not enough cardiovascular exercise.
In 1894, my founder accidentally created a wheat flake. In 1906, he began selling toasted flakes made of corn in Battle Creek, Mich. In 1916, I launched an all-bran cereal, and in 1928 I gave the world a little snap, crackle and pop. My rooster, named Cor
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WATERTOWN, S.D. - Sen. Barack Obama responded sharply yesterday to recent attacks on his foreign policy, linking President Bush and Sen John McCain as partners in "the failed policies" of the last seven years and criticizing them for "hypocrisy, fear-peddling, fear-mongering."
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A spokeswoman says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Mass. has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering a seizure. It did not appear Kennedy had a stroke as originally believed.
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Kennedy is still undergoing tests at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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