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  • Surprising Story Behind the Doritos Locos Taco

    By John Schriffen, Bonnie McLean and Susanna Kim | Newsmakers – Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed, 54, has overseen the fast food chain in one of its most explosive periods of growth ever. Since he became CEO in early 2011, the company introduced the wildly popular Doritos Locos Tacos in 2012, debuted a Cool Ranch version last month, and now sells about one million Doritos Locos Tacos every day.

    Next from Taco Bell’s test kitchens is the spicy Doritos Flamas taco, based on Frito Lay’s chili-lime flavored Doritos, which is Creed’s personal “favorite.” He expects to launch this newest menu item in the second half of this year.

    “It’s an amazing product. It’s spicy but it has a lime aftertaste,” Creed said. “You bite into it…You feel this real spiciness, and then the Frito Lay people are so magical with their seasoning, you get this lovely lime spiciness that sort of cools your mouth.”

    Creed explained how one taco, the Doritos Locos Taco, helped create 15,000 jobs for the Yum! Brands subsidiary. Taco Bell says it has 150,000 team members in its restaurants

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  • Sculptor Eugene Daub: Rosa Parks ‘Made a Stand by Sitting’

    By Abbie Boudreau and Mary-Rose Abraham | Newsmakers – Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    The last time Congress commissioned a statue for the U.S. Capitol, Ulysses S. Grant was president, the first cable cars were making their way up San Francisco streets, and Levi Strauss patented blue jeans.

    When President Barack Obama unveiled the sculpture of Rosa Parks this past February, it not only was the first commissioned statue for the site in 140 years, but Parks became the first African-American woman to have her likeness in Statuary Hall. It appears alongside such notables as Andrew Jackson, Brigham Young and Helen Keller.

    On Dec. 1, 1955, a bus conductor in Montgomery, Ala., ordered Parks to give up her seat on a public bus so white passengers could be seated. Parks refused to stand up and remained in her seat. She was quickly arrested.

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called her action “the spark that ignited the modern civil rights movement.”

    Parks’ bronze-and-granite statue is close to 9 feet tall. In a departure from others in Statuary Hall, it features a seated figure.

    “She

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