| December 7, 2007 | - A 19-year-old man recently fired from McDonald's visited a mall in Omaha, where he shot and killed eight people then himself. Dr. Joseph Stothert, director of the trauma ward that reconstructed one survivor's arm, noted that bullets from an assault rifle move two to three times as fast as bullets fired from handguns. “Velocity,” he explained, “is transmitted to the tissue as energy.”
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NYT
Source 2:
Des Moines Register
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| January 19, 2007 | -
McDonald's opened its first drive-thru window in China.
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AP via Breitbart
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| December 8, 2005 | - A passenger jet slid off the runway at Chicago's Midway Airport and hit a car, killing a six-year-old boy as he ate some McDonald's food and sang “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”
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KVIA.com
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| November 29, 2005 | - In Manchester, New Hampshire, a man named Ronald MacDonald was arrested for stealing $133 from a safe at a Wendy's restaurant.
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The Union leader
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| November 11, 2005 | - In Canada a 10-year-old boy called for a boycott of McDonald’s until the United States pays back $4 billion in softwood tariffs.
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AFP
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| July 5, 2005 | -
McDonald's corporation asked Russell Simmons, P. Diddy, and Tommy Hilfiger to redesign the company's uniforms.
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CNN Money
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| May 21, 2004 | - A bomb blew up outside a McDonald's in Istanbul.
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New York Times
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| September 7, 2003 | - Interrogators at Camp Delta, the American penal colony in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were said to be using Twinkies and McDonald's Happy Meals to make the prisoners talk.
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Baltimore Sun
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| June 26, 2003 | - The World Health Organization was consulting with corporations such as Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, and McDonald's in order to devise a plan to encourage consumers to eat healthy food, lose weight, and exercise more.
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New York Times
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| May 2, 2003 | - Pilgrims who bought tickets to see the pope on his visit to Spain were given a McDonald's hamburger, medium fries, medium drink, and either an ice cream sundae or an apple pie. Also included in the ticket price was a "pilgrim's bag" with a baseball cap, a rosary, a copy of the Gospel According to St. Mark.
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BBC
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Another soldier was unimpressed with the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham. “I've been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I ain't seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant,” he told a British reporter. “These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of 2,500 people you got a McDonald's at one end and a Hardee's at the other.”
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| March 11, 2003 | -
McDonald's was trying to overcome the fact that the restaurant has come to be associated with poor, stupid, and fat people.
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| December 24, 2002 | -
McDonald's Corp. warned that it will post its first ever quarterly loss.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
McDonald's restaurants in Indonesia and India were blown up, and four movie theaters filled with families celebrating the end of Ramadan exploded simultaneously in Bangladesh, killing at least 17 and wounding hundreds.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
McDonald's recalled 100,000 “bobble head dolls” because they contain hazardous amounts of lead.
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| September 10, 2002 | -
McDonald's said it was going to reduce the harmful fats in its french fries but that they would still taste the same.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
McDonald's apologized for the timing of its new “McAfrika” launch in Norway; the sandwich, made of beef, cheese, and tomatoes, and ostensibly based on an African recipe, offended groups raising money to aid the 13 million Africans currently facing starvation.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus closed the most popular McDonald's restaurant in Minsk and threatened to replace all the McDonald's in the country with a chain that serves cabbage soup, sausage, and fried mashed potatoes.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
After a Canadian man died of mad cow disease in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, shares of McDonald's, Wendy's, YUM! Brands, and other fast-food companies declined sharply.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
McDonald's agreed to donate $10 million to Hindu and vegetarian organizations to settle a lawsuit over the false claim that its french fries were suitable for vegetarians.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Belarus began cracking down on the proliferation of McDonald's restaurants.
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| December 18, 2001 | - A McDonald's in Xian province, where many Uighurs live, blew up.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Scientists found that people who eat a lot of snacks are more prone to macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The FBI uncovered a six-year scam in which eight people rigged McDonald's contests, embezzling $13 million in cash and prizes.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
McDonald's apologized to Hindus whom it lured into sin (condemning them, perhaps, to countless lifetimes of suffering) by secretly putting beef flavorings on its french fries: “We regret if customers felt that the information we provided was not complete enough to meet their needs.” After a five-year investigation, Heinz was fined $180,000 for underfilling its ketchup bottles and agreed to overfill them by 1 percent, at a cost of $650,000, for a year.
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| May 8, 2001 | - A vegetarian lawyer sued McDonald's for using beef in its french fries.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Burger King recalled 400,000 Rattling, Paddling Riverboat toys after they were determined to be a choking hazard; McDonald's recalled 234,000 toys last week for the same reason.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Sales of beef in France dropped, even at McDonalds, even though France has rigid controls on the provenance of its homegrown beef cattle (each cow is given a “passport” at birth documenting its parentage and place of origin, which must be submitted to the slaughterhouse).
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| September 19, 2000 | - José Bové, the French
farmer who vandalized a McDonald's while protesting globalization, was sent to jail for three months.
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