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Saturday night Dining Services will serve itsfirst dinner--Saigon sizzle, chicken with bowtiesand corn chowder, among other items...
...blood) is high at 148 compared with my "good" HDL (high-density lipoprotein, which helps clear cholesterol), which is 54. Moore assures me I can lower my cholesterol without medication and asks about my diet. While I generally stay away from red meat and eat mostly fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, I confess a weakness for cheese, potato chips and butter on all sorts of things. Moore wonders if I am ready to "commit"--as she says--to eliminating cheese and chips and cutting down on butter. Reluctantly...
Fools' footprints have been left in plenty of onetime high-flying IPOs. Boston Chicken, the eatery, could do no wrong when it sold stock in 1993. Adjusted for splits, it initially traded at over $25, but today the stock is under $2 and worth less than a plate of meat loaf with a couple of sides. Netscape's IPO in 1995 was part of Round 1 of Internet mania. Adjusted for splits, the browser company initially traded near $36, but today is around...
Seven million copies later, the authors are living happily ever after. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, hit the top of the best-seller lists in 1995 and spawned a series of sequels--Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, for the Pet-Lover's Soul, for the Teenage Soul, for the Soul at Work, ad nauseam--that together have sold more than an astounding 28 million copies. (Suggestion for a new title: Chicken Soup for the Souls of 33 Publishers Who Really, Really...
...heart to heart, soul to soul, to the core being of a person," says Hansen. Each contains 101 stories ("That's a spiritual number," he says), and few of those last longer than three pages--perfect for attention spans ground down to nothing by TV. No one will mistake Chicken Soup for literature, and in case you miss the point, the cover blurb from Robin ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") Leach is a clue that you're not buying Middlemarch. From book to book, the tone is unvarying: earnest, unadorned and ruthlessly uplifting. The stories are gathered under recurring...