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Grandpa (Alan Arkin) does heroin. Dad (Greg Kinnear) hopes to become a motivational guru with a dreary nine-step program that asks people to banish their inner losers. Chubby little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a prepubescent beauty queen, the Little Miss Sunshine of the title. That goal is not particularly advanced by her brother (Paul Dano) or her uncle (Steve Carell), a Proust scholar coming off a suicide attempt. Mom (Toni Collette) is loving but too distracted to cook. At the Hoover house in Albuquerque, N.M., it's all KFC all the time...
TRANS FAT Junk-food makers are scrambling to banish this bad-cholesterol-boosting ingredient that makes so many sinful foods taste so darn good...
...spiritual—at least in name.In both “Catechumen” and “Ominous Horizons,” which followed two years later, the bad guys are “Satan’s minions” and the player must “banish them back to their evil realm” using “spiritual weapons” such as the Sword of the Spirit and the Holy Crossbow (no mention was made of Monty Python’s infamous Holy Hand Grenade). In doing so, they show Satan that...
Joseph, who believes trans fats in margarine helped kill his stepfather, sued Kraft in May 2003 to stop it from marketing Oreos to elementary school students. The suit drew hoots of derision from tort reformers, even though Joseph withdrew it days later, after Kraft announced it would banish trans fats from the Oreo and then committed to doing so across its product lines. It has succeeded in converting 73% of its cookies and crackers, including Triscuits. But so far, the Oreo project has put on store shelves only low-fat, sugar-free and "golden" varieties of the cookie, which taste...
...socially ostracizing these people and making it next to impossible for them to find a job or have educational opportunities or otherwise forge necessary social ties, what do we expect is going to happen with them?" asks Bruce Winick, a University of Miami law and psychiatry professor. "If we banish the sexual offender to a subterranean existence, pretty soon he starts getting back that criminal urge...