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  1. The public radio program " This American Life " went on the air this weekend claiming to have unearthed the notoriously closely guarded secret formula for Coca-Cola . "I am not kidding," host Ira Glass said at the top of the show, rustling the paper into his microphone. "One of the most famously

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  1. The maker of Hostess Twinkies, Wonder bread, Drake's coffee cakes and other edibles has threatened to shut down if it's unable to win major concessions from its 20,000 union workers soon. Interstate Bakeries Corp., which has been under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since September 2004, said in

  2. When looking at a Twinkie, most people see a small, spongy yellow cake, four inches long with a creamy inside. Others see a moist, delicious treat, and some people remember the Twinkie as a symbol of American culture that's been around since the 1930s. But when Steve Ettlinger looks at a Twinkie,

  3. Albert Einstein gets all the attention, but the great mind that would-be inventors ultimately compare themselves to is Otto Rohwedder at least if they think they've invented the greatest thing since sliced bread. Up until 1928, the idea of selling pre-sliced bread was preposterous. After all, the

  4. The nations largest wholesale baker was ordered to pay $120 million in punitive damages to black workers who said they suffered racial discrimination at a Wonder Bread plant. Wednesdays damage award came two days after a jury ordered Interstate Bakeries Corp., the Kansas City, Mo.-based company

  5. A jury has decided that the nations largest wholesale baker discriminated against 21 black workers and awarded them $11 million in damages. Interstate Bakeries Corp., the Kansas City, Mo.-based company that produces Wonder Bread, Twinkies, Home Pride and Hostess Cupcakes, said it would appeal the

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  7. Union Carbide Profits More than Double Union Carbide, which is being acquired by Dow Chemical, said today its second-quarter profits more than doubled, surpassing Wall Street estimates, despite rising costs for raw materials and energy. The company said net income jumped to $130 million, or 94

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