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• Traversie, who is blind, has based his allegation on a description of surgical scars that others have provided to him. Some claim that they see three Ks carved into his abdomen, though Rapid City police say they investigated the claims and didn't find enough evidence to pursue charges.
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Anchor plundered from Long John Silver's in SD
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Long John Silver's in Sioux Falls has been plundered of the antique anchor that has greeted customers for more than 30 years.
• The 50-pound, 4-feet-by-4-feet anchor is painted bright yellow and has sat in a street-side rock bed along Minnesota Avenue since the restaurant's 1976 opening, manager Kim Highstrom said Monday.
• "It was an actual old anchor. I could lift it myself, but it was heavy," Highstrom told The Associated Press.
• Highstrom said she's been offered money for the anchor many times but has always refused to sell it. She wondered in hindsight if she had been too trusting with its placement.
• "Maybe I should have chained it down," she said. "There isn't another one like it. It's just a sad deal."
• Sioux Falls police told reporters that the anchor could be worth as much as $500. Highstrom said she has searched the web to replace it but can't find its equal.
• She's offering a $100 reward for the anchor's safe return.
The making of the term 'pink slime'
CANDICE CHOI,AP Food Industry Writer
• NEW YORK (AP) -- "Pink slime" was almost "pink paste" or "pink goo."
• The microbiologist who coined the term for lean finely textured beef ran through a few iterations in his head before he decided to send an email about the filler to a co-worker at the U.S. Department of Agriculture a decade ago. Then, the name hit him like heartburn after a juicy burger.
• "It's pink. It's pasty. And it's slimy looking. So I called it 'pink slime,'" said Gerald Zirnstein, the former meat inspector at the USDA. "It resonates, doesn't it?"
• The pithy description fueled an uproar that resulted in the main company behind the filler, Beef Products Inc., deciding to close three meat plants this month. The controversy over the filler, which is made of fatty bits of beef that are heated and treated with ammonium to kill bacteria, shows how a simple nickname can forever change an entire industry.
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