Hansen: Fire interrupts daily routine at Mr. Filet - for a while
27.01.10
Hatzigiannakis (pronounced hedge-e-uh-KNOCK-us) heard a man from the fire department saying the towel had burst into flames and saying terms such as "spontaneous combustion."
But Brad Fousek, a senior fire investigator, says they're still awaiting lab results and aren't ready to lay out concrete theories.
"It seems to be one of those one-in-a-million things," Fousek says.
That's sounds about right to Hatzigiannakis, who feels as if he's opened and closed the place a million mornings and afternoons.
"I've been doing this 41 years," he says. "Doing the same thing since day one."
Since the fire, he's spent some sleepless nights, shed some tears. Hatzigiannakis hasn't been so stressed since he arrived in Des Moines from Asprovalta, Greece, on Feb. 21, 1969. He came to live with his uncle, who had opened Mr. Filet with a partner two years before.
Asprovalta is a small town in northern Greece on the Mediterranean Sea. Though his mother and father
Source: DesMoinesRegister.com
Spin Cycle: Curious cultures, divorce gifts and British booze ban
23.01.10
Unknown principles
Sometimes it's the little things that make us realize how assorted we are from other cultures — and helps explain why world civil may still be a ways off.
For example, Chinese confectioners have constructed a 33-foot prolonged replica of the Great Wall of China, which they hope will pep up more consumption of chocolate, which is extremely low in China.
That's a concept we unbiased can't understand — chocolate needing a marketing machinery.
And then we have South Korea, which is ordering that the lights in offices be turned off antiquated once a month to encourage workers to go home and make babies.
In this boonies, we often go home early just to eat chocolate.
Divorce registry
We've spout a small fortune on bridal showers, wedding gifts and babe presents, and soon we may be adding to our account deficit as we are false to buy divorce gifts.
Source: San Jose Mercury News