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Eight-year-old Hannah McGoey lives in an upstairs apartment on a busy thoroughfare in London. She has no yard to play in, and her school holds physical-education classes just two days a week. Her busy parents tried to be careful about nutrition, giving up their Friday fish and chips, for example. But over the years, Hannah only became plumper. By the time she turned 6, children's sizes no longer fit her. "I would have to buy jeans for 12- and 14-year-olds," her mother Julia remembers, "and then cut a foot and a half...
This much we know about enigmatic auteur Tim Burton's movie Big Fish, which opens Thanksgiving weekend: it contains a car, a tree and EWAN MCGREGOR. The plot revolves around an old man (Albert Finney) who tells tall tales about himself as a younger man (that would be McGregor), but little else is clear. Is it a fairy tale? "I always like a mixture of all of those elements--funny, sad, real, unreal, all together," says Burton. "I find that's the most accurate description of how I feel every day." Fair enough. So is it a comedy? "I prefer...
Salmon steaks are great sources of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. But according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), salmon can also contain dangerous doses of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), especially if the fish comes from your local grocery store...
...found that store-bought salmon, most of which is farmed, contained 16 times the PCB levels of salmon caught in the wild. The Environmental Protection Agency considers these levels a health hazard, and if they were found in wild salmon would recommend eating the fish no more than once a month. The Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for fish sold in stores, says these PCB levels are safe--for now. But it is investigating the primary source of the contaminant: the ground fish meal that farmed salmon eat. --By Alice Park
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...