Starting this fall, I will have my very own cooking show on Parkland's TV station. This is not something that I had ever expected to do. The first cooking show that I remember watching is Yan Can Cook on PBS. I was maybe six or seven. It must have been during the summer, because that was back when cooking shows only came on in the afternoon, competing with talk shows and soap operas for housewifely attention.…
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Lonely Japanese men (and a few women) with rich imaginations have created a thriving subculture ("otaku") in which they have all-consuming relationships with figurines that are based on popular anime characters. "The less extreme," reported a New York Times writer in July, obsessively collect the dolls.…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Susan Middleton first learned about GHB when she found a Gatorade bottle containing a clear liquid in her daughter's freezer in Kansas City, Kan.
Inexplicably, the liquid was not frozen. Middleton sniffed the contents. No odor.
"What in the world?" she thought.…
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.- The school of financial hard knocks is in session for college-bound freshmen, living on their own for the first time. Among the lessons they will learn:
-The new credit card they signed up for to get that great T-shirt also comes with a 21 percent interest rate.…
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ARLINGTON, Va.-America Saturday celebrated the passion and legacy of the late Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy as President Barack Obama-whom Kennedy helped propel into the nation's highest office-pledged at a funeral mass: "We carry on."
The Senate's liberal icon, scion of a political family whose style and views influenced policy-makers for half a century, died Tuesday night at age 77 after a 15-month battle with brain cancer.…
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WASHINGTON-Their transformations took place in a sensory cocoon: aboard a CIA aircraft, shackled in place, deprived of sight and sound by a system of blindfolds, headsets and hoods.
They emerged into an existence that the world could only wonder about for most of the past eight years, but one that is becoming possible to glimpse through dozens of declassified files.…
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SAN JOSE, Calif.-When 14-year-old Victoria Gardner emotionally collapsed after being abducted and raped in 1968, the only remedy doctors in San Jose offered was a series of electro-shock treatments to help her forget her horrible experience. She turned them down.…
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