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...mean people are eating less--they're just buying cheaper stuff. "We're seeing less meat and more pizza, sandwiches, Italian pasta and casserole-type dishes," says Harry Balzer, who tracks food trends for the NPD Group, a market-research firm. "The real change that occurred in the last bout of inflation was that one of the cheapest meats became more popular: chicken...
...these creatures and many other spectacular cinematic beasties sprang from the fertile mind and animating fingers of Stan Winston, dead at 62 after a long bout with multiple myeloma...
...Winston, who died Sunday at 62, after a seven-year bout with multiple myeloma, probably gave more kids more sleepless nights than anyone in Hollywood. Yet he wasn't out simply to scare the audience; he wanted to create complex, often sympathetic figures- to enlighten us about the dark side. "I don't do special effects," he once said. "I do characters." His Edward Scissorhands character, elaborated on from director Tim Burton's sketches, puts the poignancy right in that white, sweet, baleful, soulful face. The Penguin, played by Danny De Vito in Burton's Batman Returns, is an ugly...
...White was an instrumental, if often unsung, contributor to the "Steel Curtain" defense throughout his nine-year career, taking the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories and appearing in two Pro Bowls. A fiercely dedicated athlete, White proved his mettle in 1975 when he emerged from a serious bout of pneumonia to help his team defeat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX. As Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said in a statement, "Dwight White was one of the greatest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform...
...June 2 suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...