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[Thorn Pricks] Double Exposure: Also on June 3, Catherine Reynolds announced a $10 million gift to NYU for a program in social entrepreneurship. In recent years her foundation had granted $100 million to the Kennedy Center but had seen its offer of $38 million to the Smithsonian refused because the attached string seemed to the curators too binding: the construction of an exhibit honoring Americans who had made great individual achievements, from Abraham Lincoln to Oprah Winfrey. Wayne Reynolds commented to Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes: “I’ve never met people like this [the Smithsonian curators] who said individuals never mattered in history.

[On Message from Wagner Communications] Marketing To Engineers -- An Excellent Primer: Marketing Sherpa has an excellent article on how to market to engineers. Here's a sample: “Engineers don’t care if KentuckyFriedChicken is ”˜finger lickin’ good.’ What they see is dead chicken parts coated in herbs, spices and flour and then fried in 350° oil until the skin is crispy.”

[grubbykid.com .:. links: archive] Logos of the World, Unite!: What "update" apparently means in marketing circles is to take previously well-designed logos and morph them using elements which can only be addressed as, "bubbly", "streamlined", and "ugly." Curiously, many of the corporate logos which are being updated are 30-40 years old, and were originally designed during the second wave of Modernism - or at least American Modernism which successfully ignored any social (or socialist) precedent of the first wave of Modernism (Bauhaus, et al). Regardless, the Zeitgeist is no longer interested in Gesamt Kuntswerk, but rather bubbly curvaceous and vapid design.

[Pourquoi Pas?] Who are these humans?: -McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KentuckyfriedChicken-you’re eating meat that’s been slaugh­tered in plants audited... that bad becom­ing normal:’ The same thing has happened in chicken breeding. That development

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[Chinastockblog.com] The China Stock Blog: Kentucky Fried Chicken: A China success story: Joseph C. Epps, Jr. on Shanda (SNDA) beats consensus revenue and EPS estimates on strong gaming, ad and VAS growth (1Q05 earnings)

[Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: Kentucky Fried Chicken: This page shows goodies from the web about Kentucky Fried Chicken. To contribute, just make a post to your blog about Kentucky Fried Chicken and include the link below. More Info »

[Foodfacts.info] Fast Food News: 'Kentucky Fried Chicken' moniker returning?: KFC is putting the "fried" back in Kentucky Fried Chicken. After 14 years of trying to downplay the image of its food as greasy and unhealthy by calling itself simply KFC, the chain opened a new restaurant in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday under its former name and plans 50 more this year.

[Liberalsagainstterrorism.com] Blame Kentucky Fried Chicken | Liberals Against Terrorism: KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least five people, including two assailants, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Monday at Muslim mosque in southern Pakistan, the latest religious violence to rock the country, officials said.

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