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  • Co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice cream stores dies at 90

    05/06/2008 12:45:04 PM PDT · by steveo · 14 replies · 70+ views
    Associated Press via Google ^ | 05/06/2008 | A.P. droid
    he man who helped build the 31-flavor craze at ice cream store Baskin-Robbins has died at age 90. Irvine Robbins died Monday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Daughter Marsha Veit says he had been in ill for some time. Generations of kids trooped to Baskin-Robbins stores to buy ice cream flavors like Pralines 'n Cream, Daiquiri Ice and Pink Bubblegum.
  • Bananas crush floor of rig, killing 6 immigrants in Mexico [Central American illegals]

    06/05/2007 3:51:52 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 36 replies · 1,136+ views
    Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | June 5, 2007
    JUCHITAN, Mexico — Tons of bananas collapsed the false floor of a tractor-trailer smuggling migrants in southern Mexico, killing six people hidden inside a secret compartment and wounding a dozen others, officials said Monday. About 200 Central American immigrants were hidden inside the compartment when it collapsed under the weight of the fruit Sunday in near Juchitan in Oaxaca state after a 10-hour trip that started at the Guatemalan border, Salvadoran Consul Nelson Cuellar said. The victims included two Salvadorans and one Guatemalan. The rest have yet to be identified. About a dozen others — including Salvadorans, two Guatemalans and...