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...called tween group. Tweens enjoy such venerable tongue busters as SweeTarts and Laffy Taffy as well as such newer offerings as the Wonka candy line or the souped-up SweeTarts Shockers. The Shockers are ultrasour SweeTarts in a chewy fruit base that may be unpalatable to parents but are catnip to their kids. Young consumers also like it if candies have what manufacturers call play value. SweeTarts Gummy Bugs offer all the flavor punch of ordinary SweeTarts, with the added value of coming in insect shapes. "First you see all the colors running together on the candy, and that...
...Venn Diagram consisting of the girls interested in James R. Friedman ’05 and the girls that interest Friedman would have zero overlap. “I’m like catnip for prudish nerds,” complained Friedman, “and the Crimson Dance Team won’t give me the time of day?...
...indeed many, many pages of 'erotic, pornographic ravings.? After a while, this seemingly ageless adolescent?s ardor grows wearisome, and we are grateful that he also wrote copiously about more interesting matters like music...Music, history, and gossip from a master musician and letter." PW agrees. "This will be catnip to music lovers. FORECAST: Toscanini has never lost his hold on the public imagination. Wide review attention, as well as the sensational nature of some of the material here, should ensure sales above what such a volume might normally inspire...
...also toured with Coolio, UB40 and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde. But the singer Liz Hurley calls "ravishingly sexy" was shy when asked about women in his life--save one. He plans to return to Siena for the holidays to see his mother. Here in America, that's catnip for the ladies. He's working that crossover pretty well...
BEATING DEET While cats may be wild about catnip, mosquitoes seem to hate it. Nepetalactone, its fragrant essential oil, turns out to be 10 times as effective as DEET, the chemical in most commercial bug repellents. Two years ago, the same researchers showed that Nepetalactone was repugnant to cockroaches...