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...Next door in Thailand, streets and shopping malls are filled with carts selling all sorts of creepy crawlies. The Thais consume around 300 tons a year, and estimates put the bug business at $50 million annually?about the same as the country's pizza business. For about 50? a bunch, the adventurous eater can snack on a variety of 20 kinds of insects (depending on the size of the bunch and who's selling it), from fried beetles to waterbugs. But the Big Mac of bugs has to be grasshoppers, which taste a bit like shrimp. Would you like fries...
...Walkmen’s appearance suggests a bunch of rich kids ready to whine into a microphone, their Friday show at the Middle East Downstairs proved their music far surpasses expectations. Their first album, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, started a whispering campaign about ‘the new Strokes,’ but the tracks sounded much more lushly atmospheric than the taut, concise rock of that other New York band...
...They’ve really legitimized the sport of squash. It used to be a bunch of prep school kids from Philly, New York, or Greenwich,” said Whitman, who hails from Philadelphia. “They’ve made it into a real Division I sport...
...Elephant. I found myself drawing pictures of Lindbergh the Ostrich." Annoyed by the controversial air hero Charles Lindbergh and the blinkered isolationism he was seductively selling to America, Geisel became the editorial cartoonist for PM, the left-wing New York City newspaper. "The New Yorker dismissed us as 'a bunch of young fogies,' " Ted later wrote. "I think we were a bunch of honest but slightly cockeyed crusaders, and I still have prideful memories of working alongside ... dozens of other hard-working souls who helped Marshall Field lose $30 million backing a truly unique newspaper that refused to accept advertising...
...episodes, however, will probably please those who complained that Season 4 overemphasized domestic drama--rather than Mob stories, the show's popcorn hook--and lacked focus. None have the Edward Albee gut wallop of last season's climax, but they are more consistent and action heavy. A bunch of mobsters arrested in the '80s get paroled ("The Class of '04," the media dub them), including Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), who went to jail for a heist Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become...