GOP'er Blasts Ketchup As Pro-Kerry
Associated Press
Thursday, September 23, 2004
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Is putting Heinz ketchup on a burger tantamount to supporting John Kerry for president?
An upstate New York lawmaker apparently thinks so.
Republican state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco recently told the crowd at a GOP cookout in Saratoga County that using Heinz ketchup would benefit Kerry's presidential campaign.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose late husband was a descendant of the condiment giant's founder.
The H-J Heinz Company caught wind of Tedisco's comments and responded, saying its ketchup is a nonpartisan condiment enjoyed by "Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike."
The company says Heinz Kerry is involved with Heinz-funded endowments and foundations, but not the company's ketchup business.
Nevertheless, Tedisco says he's "a mustard man" until the November election.
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Checkout Aisle Argument Leads To Headlock
Associated Press
Thursday, September 30, 2004
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A woman put a Lower Paxton Township supermarket employee in a headlock after the employee refused to leave her post to fetch iced tea and lemonade, police said.
Police said a shopper at a self-checkout lane at Giant supermarket insisted that the clerk retrieve jugs of lemonade and iced tea for her. The woman started arguing after the clerk said she couldn't leave her post at the U-Scan register, police said.
A second woman entered the store and told her friend to hurry up. When the first woman explained the clerk wouldn't help her, the second woman jabbed her finger into the clerk's head, struck her in the shoulder and placed her in a headlock, police said.
Other customers broke the fight up and the clerk escaped injury, police said. The two women ran out of the store but police said they expect to make arrests.
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Mistake by hiking magazine produces a risky route
Thursday, January 22, 2004
(01-22) 07:05 PST LONDON (AP) --
Britain's biggest-selling hiking magazine apologized Wednesday after its latest issue contained a route that would lead climbers off the edge of a cliff on Britain's tallest peak.
The February edition of Trail magazine gives advice on making a safe descent for hikers caught in bad weather on Ben Nevis in Scotland.
But the magazine's directions would instead lead readers off the north face of the 4,406-foot mountain, which is notorious for its changeable weather and has claimed the lives of several climbers.
Guy Procter, the editor of Trail, acknowledged the magazine had inadvertently deleted the first of two crucial bearings needed to get off the summit. He said that happened during the editing process.
"We print up to 200 of these routes a year, and this is the first time we've got it wrong," said Procter.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland issued an alert on its Web site about the mistake.
"Getting off Ben Nevis is probably one of the most infamous navigational tasks in the British Isles," said council spokesman Roger Wild. Describing the mistake in the magazine, he said, "Anyone following that route in poor visibility and with snow cover could easily have walked straight off the edge."
Procter said he was confident that the experienced hikers who make up most of Trail's 36,000 circulation would not be endangered by the error.
"No Trail reader would countenance going out on any mountain without a map, and the route is given a high technical rating, serving further to deter the novice," he said. "This gives me reason to be optimistic that our omission will swiftly be picked up by our readers."
Trail was criticized by mountain rescue teams last year for claiming three popular hiking routes were snow-free in winter.
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Associated Press
Thursday, September 23, 2004
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Is putting Heinz ketchup on a burger tantamount to supporting John Kerry for president?
An upstate New York lawmaker apparently thinks so.
Republican state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco recently told the crowd at a GOP cookout in Saratoga County that using Heinz ketchup would benefit Kerry's presidential campaign.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose late husband was a descendant of the condiment giant's founder.
The H-J Heinz Company caught wind of Tedisco's comments and responded, saying its ketchup is a nonpartisan condiment enjoyed by "Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike."
The company says Heinz Kerry is involved with Heinz-funded endowments and foundations, but not the company's ketchup business.
Nevertheless, Tedisco says he's "a mustard man" until the November election.
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Checkout Aisle Argument Leads To Headlock
Associated Press
Thursday, September 30, 2004
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A woman put a Lower Paxton Township supermarket employee in a headlock after the employee refused to leave her post to fetch iced tea and lemonade, police said.
Police said a shopper at a self-checkout lane at Giant supermarket insisted that the clerk retrieve jugs of lemonade and iced tea for her. The woman started arguing after the clerk said she couldn't leave her post at the U-Scan register, police said.
A second woman entered the store and told her friend to hurry up. When the first woman explained the clerk wouldn't help her, the second woman jabbed her finger into the clerk's head, struck her in the shoulder and placed her in a headlock, police said.
Other customers broke the fight up and the clerk escaped injury, police said. The two women ran out of the store but police said they expect to make arrests.
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Mistake by hiking magazine produces a risky route
Thursday, January 22, 2004
(01-22) 07:05 PST LONDON (AP) --
Britain's biggest-selling hiking magazine apologized Wednesday after its latest issue contained a route that would lead climbers off the edge of a cliff on Britain's tallest peak.
The February edition of Trail magazine gives advice on making a safe descent for hikers caught in bad weather on Ben Nevis in Scotland.
But the magazine's directions would instead lead readers off the north face of the 4,406-foot mountain, which is notorious for its changeable weather and has claimed the lives of several climbers.
Guy Procter, the editor of Trail, acknowledged the magazine had inadvertently deleted the first of two crucial bearings needed to get off the summit. He said that happened during the editing process.
"We print up to 200 of these routes a year, and this is the first time we've got it wrong," said Procter.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland issued an alert on its Web site about the mistake.
"Getting off Ben Nevis is probably one of the most infamous navigational tasks in the British Isles," said council spokesman Roger Wild. Describing the mistake in the magazine, he said, "Anyone following that route in poor visibility and with snow cover could easily have walked straight off the edge."
Procter said he was confident that the experienced hikers who make up most of Trail's 36,000 circulation would not be endangered by the error.
"No Trail reader would countenance going out on any mountain without a map, and the route is given a high technical rating, serving further to deter the novice," he said. "This gives me reason to be optimistic that our omission will swiftly be picked up by our readers."
Trail was criticized by mountain rescue teams last year for claiming three popular hiking routes were snow-free in winter.
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