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in Times Square. For others, it’s a giant acorn or economy. tractor-trailer crashed and spilled its load of eggs
peach. Police in Racine, Wis., say 43-year-old Brian on a Detroit-area freeway.
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Buy less, make more, give more; get
in McDonough, Ga., where thousands gathered total included $365 in lobster and $213 in ribeye and his rig hit a guardrail and a bridge support
job, keep job, love job; closer rela-
Wednesday to watch a giant chicken nugget drop and beef roasts. beam that tore the trailer open and spilled
tionships, more intimacy. Less fear.
into a vat of dipping sauce. Workers told police they saw Rubenstein fill his hundreds of cartons of eggs along a 300-foot
The 6-foot-tall, 800-pound nugget actually is cart with lobster tails and beef cuts, as well as a stretch of I-94.
Casual Friday is a casual look
plaster and the vat is filled with syrup and food smoked ham, apple pie and fruit platter. He was Single-digit temperatures made for a frozen
at the week in news. Got an idea?
coloring meant to resemble honey mustard, arrested Dec. 23. mess that Smiley says was scraped up by front-
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“but it looks real,” said Liz Stavely, a manager at Police say he told investigators times are end loaders and put in dump trucks.
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York’s Times Square.