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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

In the News


Taco Bell's New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature
Taco Bell boasts zero environmental impact with their new menu which will rely solely on synthetic, lab-produced ingredients.
LEVEL: MEDIUM/EASY

KEY WORDS: ingredients, items, food synthesizer, tell the difference, labs, ground beef, initiative, helps reduce global warming, melt down, straws, wrapping, eating the garbage you produce.

- Also WATCH: Supreme Court Ruling Gives Fans The Right To Act Like Total Assholes At Games
The Court found that buying a ticket is license to boo, swear and throw beer at whomever fans please at a sporting event, on the grounds that anyone who doesn't like it can stay home, and those tickets pay for the players' salaries, so who are they to complain?
KEY WORDS: ruling, asshole, landmark, cut loose, celebrate the decision, unfairly removed from a stadium, bracing for a surge in jackass behaviour, oppose the decision.
LEVEL: DIFFICULT


- Also WATCH: Should unemployed Americans invest in new Apple computers? Panelists discuss how owning a top-of-the-line MacBook or an iPad 2 is actually essential to finding a new job. Detractors are left with no arguments.

KEYWORDS: little sign of recovery, the unemployed, rip off, tiny toy, tool, supporting innovation, overspending.
LEVEL: MEDIUM

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

100% unnatural food, nice. If it's cheaper and as healthy as normal vegetables or meat. I want it!!

Ona said...

Certainly! Or it might be even healthier -aren't chemicals part of the natural world after all? Shouldn't we prefer to eat controlled chemicals rather than spinach affected by who knows what natural plague? or meat from animals suffering from terrible illnesses that could easily get into your system?:-D