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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | As a vice-president at Wonton Food, Inc., in Long Island City, Donald Lau manages the company’s accounts payable and receivable, negotiates with insurers, and, somewhat incidentally, composes the fortunes that go inside the fortune cookies, of which Wonton is the world’s largest manufacturer. |
 | | Each day, Wonton’s factory churns out four million Golden Bowl-brand cookies, which are sold to several hundred venders, who, in turn, sell them to most of the forty thousand Chinese restaurants across the country. |
 | | He is worried that readers will notice that the cookies are in reruns, which might result in Wonton’s losing its edge on the competition. |
| www.newyorker.com /talk/content/articles/050606ta_talk_olshan (559 words) |
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