Aug. 05--Kellogg is the latest food company to say it's phasing out artificial colors, flavors and additives, announcing they will be gone from all its products by 2018. Imagine that: Froot Loops with all-natural froot.
Maybe they'll rebrand Froot Loops as Fifty Shades of Gray.
The SEC has voted to require most public companies to disclose the ratio between the annual compensation of their chief executives and their median employee pay beginning in 2017. The SEC cannot require the CEOs to blush.
Highlights magazine, the children's waiting room staple for 69 years that reports a still-robust print circulation of about 2 million, finally is introducing a mobile edition. The publisher knew it was time to go digital when kids working its "What's wrong with this picture?" puzzles kept responding, "It's on paper."
A now-former Taco Bell employee was arrested with another person after remnants of a meth lab were discovered in his Iowa restaurant. Also this week, a California man sued In-N-Out Burger, alleging a milkshake last year contained meth pills. Fast-food tip: You may want Coke, but avoid ice.
Around 1,400 "Mad Men" props, costumes and other ephemera -- from Don Draper's 1965 Cadillac to Ken Cosgrove's eyepatch -- are being auctioned this week via screenbid.com. Regardless of how many buyers it attracts, critics consider it the greatest, most nuanced auction of all time.
Delegates began debating the first complete draft of the Constitution 228 years ago Thursday. That version opened, "We the People of the States of..." and listed the original 13. Critically, the final language instead presented a single nation and unified government with, "We the People of the United States ..."
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