Word: diets
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...putting him on a diet ... we're teaching him moderation." ROSEMARIE TRUGLIO, vice president of research and education for children's television staple Sesame Street, on news that the show's snack-obsessed Cookie Monster will now tell viewers "a cookie is a sometimes food" in light of rising levels of obesity among U.S. children
Styrofoam cups and cans of diet Coke are scattered across a desk dominated by a bulky radio microphone. A fleshy, pie-faced man in a short-sleeved shirt is idly dealing blackjack hands to himself while grappling with questions from his call-in radio audience. Mostly, the problems revolve around money: investments, insurance, loans, lawsuits. A man from Topeka who sells computer cables for a living wants to know how much liability coverage he should have. Bruce Williams replies, "I wouldn't walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice...
DIED. Dan White, 39, former San Francisco supervisor who in 1978 shot to death the city's mayor, George Moscone, and its first openly homosexual supervisor, Harvey Milk; by his own hand (carbon-monoxide poisoning); in San Francisco. At his 1979 trial, White pleaded "diminished capacity," contending that a diet of sugary junk food had aggravated his severe psychological problems, an argument that became known as the "Twinkie defense." When White was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter, 5,000 rioters, most of them gays, stormed city hall. Following his release after five years in prison, White, unemployed and dogged...
...release by abandoning his policy against negotiating with terrorists. "You negotiated over the hostages from the TWA plane," the letter read. "We are asking for the same consideration. There is no alternative." The letters complained that the hostages were being held without "proper exercise, sanitation, fresh air or balanced diet." The White House reaffirmed its longstanding policy against negotiating with terrorists, but Administration Spokesman Edward Djerejian nonetheless declared that the U.S. was prepared to "talk with the abductors themselves to obtain the release of the hostages." CHINA Stop-and-Go Reforms...
...Rosemarie T. Truglio, the show’s vice president of research and education said, “We are not putting him on a diet, and we would never take the position of no sugar. We’re teaching him moderation...