• Imagine, by contrast, an elastic band that passes through the hole in a doughnut.

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  • At a Chicago diner one day, he ordered a doughnut and coffee.

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  • Regulations govern everything from how much jelly is in a doughnut to the number of matches allowed in a box.

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  • That technique uses a magnetic field to hold large volumes of the same isotopes of hydrogen inside a doughnut-shaped vessel, called a tokamak.

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  • So he appeared on David Letterman's couch this week, one of his chief tormenters, and promptly shoved a doughnut into his mouth.

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  • This year John, a retired police officer, also added a scene with a doughnut delivery truck being robbed as a police cruiser comes to the rescue.

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  • The perverse result of frequent-flyer programs that award Million-Miler status is that they create a Doughnut Hole incentive for some of their best customers to fly on another airline.

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  • And he's not kidding--they have a doughnut shop and a hotdog jamboree under their belts, and there's a pizza place among the 30 shows on their schedule this summer.

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  • All it took was a late-night, nationally televised bite of a doughnut for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to set off an uncomfortable three-day conversation about his weight.

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  • Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos do not generally form fists, and the researchers think they are unable to: when a chimp curls up its fingers it forms a doughnut shape.

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  • In February, Mr. Christie attempted to make light of the subject during an appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman, " breaking out a doughnut from his pocket and munching it on stage.

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  • Customers also have suggested other ideas for the Griffins to pursue, including a "spainer, " a spoon with holes to eat cereal without milk, and a doughnut pizza pan, to increase the crust-to-toppings ratio on pizza.

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  • Investors, who have been paying too much attention to Hostess Brands the maker of Twinkies that strives to avoid liquidation, have probably missed a doughnut company that reported strong Q4 results on Tuesday, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE:KKD).

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  • But he joked about his size during a February appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman, " pulling out a doughnut and saying his girth was "fair game" for comedians, who had made fun of his size for years.

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  • The DIs wore their hair long and pinned up in "sock buns, " a Marine Corps specialty that required snipping off the toe line of a sock, rolling the fabric into a doughnut shape, and wrapping and winding a ponytail's worth of hair around it.

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  • Kahn, who was formerly the chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetic Association, said it seemed unrealistic to point consumers toward less-processed foods like fruits and vegetables because the intended audience of the Smart Choices program comprises those who might be choosing between a sugary cereal and a doughnut.

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  • To avoid dying in a famine, the brain is wired to pick up on signs that calorie-rich foods are nearby, which helps explain why that piece of cake on the plate in front of you is so irresistible, or why seeing a sign for a doughnut shop draws you in even when you know you need to watch your diet.

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  • Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.

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  • She was drinking coffee and eating a glazed doughnut from a paper bag.

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  • Krispy Kreme, a big doughnut maker, has blamed in part rising interest in low-carb diets for its recent profits warning.

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  • For example, there's a chocolate doughnut that increases speed, bubble gum that slows players down and bowling pins that can be used as clubs.

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  • "Because I didn't drink coffee, he was assigned to get me a chocolate doughnut, " she told an audience that included Michael Douglas and Sarah Jessica Parker.

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  • For locals the most popular order is vetkoek (pronounced fet-cook and literally meaning 'fat cake'): an Afrikaner pastry that's a bit like a savoury doughnut, filled with mince.

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  • Hawkers barge into the coaches, yelling "kaafi, " which is how they pronounce "coffee, " and "vada, " a type of doughnut made from ground lentils.

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  • Pair with a Krispy Kreme burger for a shot at winning the doughnut episode of Iron Chef.

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  • Last year, recognizing that prepared foods were a big hit and lucrative, the chain introduced a line of pizza pockets and doughnut holes.

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  • Still others have bent cucumber shaped pistons zooming back and forth in a huge, hollow cast-iron doughnut.

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  • The main circular building, known to BBC employees as "the doughnut", will become a hotel and apartments.

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  • Gone is the dark and dismal interior, the indifferent service, and - a terrible shame this - the legendary doughnut bowl, whose stale contents could once be bought and pelted at fellow patrons for exactly 1, 942 Czech crowns (just over 100 dollars), a homage to an incident in the classic 1942 novel Saturnin, a sort of Czech Jeeves and Wooster.

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  • The money was put aside by GCHQ more than 10 years ago when the so-called 'doughnut' building was built, as a way of offsetting the impact of such a big development coming into the area.

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