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...SKINNY: A loaded Chicken BLT salad has 660 calories--90 more than a Big Bacon Classic...
...rally in Long Beach, Calif., musclebound gubernatorial hope-ful ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was attacked by an anonymous egg-wielding assailant. If his attacker had been hoping to express a political opinion, the attempt backfired, since he or she succeeded only in getting Schwarzenegger yet more publicity--"This guy owes me bacon now," he quipped--as well as giving him an excuse to take off his jacket and show off his biceps. Schwarzenegger is now expected to travel to the past and terminate the chicken that laid the egg, thus erasing the entire incident...
...Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, was believed to be meeting with the organization's top two military officials. Hamas leaders promised revenge for the strike, which slightly wounded Yassin. "Our operations," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a top official, "will strike everywhere." --By Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington and Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem
This new wave of no-guilt snacks has direct links to the efforts of Dr. Robert Atkins, whose get-thin-quick regimen became famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn...
...titled that, as Kesey writes in Sometimes a Great Notion, "a man might struggle and labor his livelong life and make no mark! None! No permanent mark at all!" Dean may not be a maverick, but he may be something better: a real contender. Zounds. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nathan Thornburgh/Burlington