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...event as "the best train set a boy could ever want." The 11th edition of "Ebertfest" kicks off Wednesday at the historic Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign, and will screen a dozen titles including Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, which took home the top prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. After a long bout with thyroid cancer and complications that left him unable to speak, Ebert made his first public appearance in nearly a year at the 2007 Ebertfest. "We spend too much time hiding illness," he wrote...
...conversation between Geithner and the members of the committee became more confounding when the issue turned to the frozen credit markets. The Secretary said that his efforts to get banks to improve lending were getting "mixed" results. Banks have made themselves ready targets for blame. They have curtailed lending since the government began sending them rescue checks...
Only Hollywood would call him Willy. The owner of Keiko realized that he was going to die, because he was underweight, he had a skin disease, he was eating frozen fish in an artificial saltwater tank at high altitude, breathing the most polluted air on the planet in Mexico City. So they gave him away. They were not ocean people, and they asked us if we wanted to help them. I ended up on the board of the Free Willy-Keiko foundation. And we ended up doing everything...
...They also often need a respite from grocery shopping's drudgery. Scouring the supermarket for all the items on your list is not much fun. You may get pumped shopping for shoes and new shirts, but who relishes the chance to buy relish? Sure, you can bid on frozen chicken pot pie over the eBay, but that's a pretty lonely endeavor. At the very least, these auctions offer another social outlet in tough times. "It's a fun experience," says Randy Zimmerman, a mother of seven from Holt. "We goof around with the auctioneers. People are having conversations throughout...
...Still, saving is the real key. Zimmerman has seven children, between the ages of 2 and 19. At a grocery auction in early April, she bought hot dogs, frozen pizzas and an Easter ham, among other items. Zimmerman figures all the stuff she bought would have cost $300 in the grocery store. She paid $100. "The more we save on food, the more we have for all the other bills each month," Zimmerman says. "Our cash flow can stretch out further. These auctions have just been a blessing...