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Restaurateur Arnold 'Arnie' Morton Dies at 83

CHICAGO – Restaurateur Arnold “Arnie” Morton (search), who founded the chain of steakhouses that bear his name and helped launch the first Playboy Club and the annual Taste of Chicago food festival, has died at the age of 83. Morton, who suffered from Alzheimer’s (search) disease and cancer, died Saturday …

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Spoiled Airline Carrots Cause Food Poisoning

HONOLULU – Contaminated carrots served on several flights out of Honolulu likely caused 45 people to suffer food poisoning across 22 states, Japan, Australia and American Samoa, a state epidemiologist said Thursday. The outbreak has sparked one lawsuit, filed Thursday, against airline caterer Gate Gourmet Inc., which included the carrots …

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U.S. Investigates Source of Saddam Photos

WASHINGTON – President Bush and the U.S. military on Friday condemned the publication of photographs of a near-naked Saddam Hussein (search) in prison and said an investigation had been started to find who took and released the photos. A front-page picture in the British tabloid The Sun showed the former …

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