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...After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick's and Jewel, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, clutching her shopping list with one hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the deep discounter's $2.69 1-gal. jugs of milk and 33-cent boxes of salt. "I've got to save my pennies," she says, heading into the store. Chernova certainly isn't alone...
...Democratic challengers aren't particularly strong candidates. Several are inexperienced; others are more liberal than their states. Many seemed almost struck dumb when, as gasoline prices soared this summer, Republicans hit on the suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...List (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 3) is adapted from a show in Israel, which earlier this year gave us HBO's therapy drama In Treatment. In this dramedy, emphasis on the -medy, single gal Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser - and, yes, Bloom owns a flower shop) throws a bachelorette party and gets thrown for a loop when the bridal party visits a psychic. Bella, the clairvoyant says, will get married within a year, to one of her ex-boyfriends - but if she doesn't find him in that time frame, she will never marry. (Some prophets speak in parables...
From 30,000 ft. in the air, the Greenland ice cap seems impregnable, nearly 800 trillion gal. of frozen water locked safely away. But get closer and the cracks begin to emerge. Dancing by helicopter above the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier, near the western coast of Greenland, you can make out veins of the purest blue meltwater running between folds of ice. What you can't see is Jakobshavn's inexorable slide toward the sea at 65 ft. to 115 ft. a day--an alarming rate that has accelerated in recent years. As the glacier nears the coast...
...These days she can cry for joy. She's publicly lusted for a TV job for a year or two, and now she's got it. Her fans are happy too; in the peanut gallery behind the outdoor MSNBC convention post in Denver, some of them cheered whenever their gal got to speak. But the real reason to be pleased about her ascension is that it could offer an oasis of civility in the armed conflict of guys tearing one another apart. Maddow's emergence from the shadows suggests a beguiling option for cable-TV news talk: that nice...