To many, "mixed" invited associations like "mixed up," "mixed company" and "mixed signals," all of which reinforced existing stereotypes of "mixed" people as confused, untrustworthy or defective.

They take perfectly good water and louse it up with kiwi and strawberry ... So what's the raspberry all about, if they want it to taste like tea? There's a salt-free rice cake that's also fat ...

After all, oil-rich Iran continues to enrich uranium ... What are we to make of this mixed-up picture of Iran and its nuclear program? With the new intelligence assessment, our allies got, and ...

EISENBERG: It's a very comic way to think. HINES: So the theme for these questions is called All Mixed Up. I'm going to give you a clue and then an anagram of the clue's answer, and then you tell ...