Ms. Reid and her dozen assistants also recently experimented with several Christmas beers, brewing a peppermint stout as well as gingerbread, raisin and apple-pie ales that might one day make their way to store shelves.

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One Solidus seedling is Work for Pie, a job-listing Web site for software coders.

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The little bit at the base is the Sherman Act of 1890, a motherhood-and-apple-pie affair that outlaws monopolies and attracted only one dissenting vote in its passage through Congress.

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One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.

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One block north, hand-painted signs direct you to arguably the best key lime pie that money can buy.

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You need a classy pie chart, or a 3D graphic of a software-stack or one of those social network symbols with a circle and branches coming out of it.

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He commandeered the pie-smashing duties last season, elevating the act of slamming whipped cream onto one's face into a science.

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