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...fifth or sixth reel of an ongoing eco-melodrama involving the threatened cutting of ancient California redwoods on the foggy north coast flickered to a close last week, though more perils lurked. There lay the heroine, hog-tied to the tracks; there came the choo-choo; there gloated the villain, twirling his mustache. Logging was to begin in three days. Negotiators for the U.S. Department of the Interior were scripted as heroes at a day-long wrangle at the Washington office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein...
...course of treatment before offering his conclusions and failed to note the obvious cause of at least part of his weight loss: his consumption of chopped salads and grilled vegetables instead of French fries and pasta. If Ressner was going to be a guinea pig, why not go whole hog? Give us a week-by-week report on his progress on Redux, including the inevitable weight-loss slowdown and frustration. Then record his experiences post-Redux: tracking his dying brain cells (as was mentioned in the main article) and gradually regaining his lost weight, plus 10 lbs. (as usually happens...
...Carl Sandburg does the honors, and Chicago is "Hog Butcher for the World," and there you have...
...ponder New York City all day without associating it with Thomas Wolfe, and San Francisco for a month without thinking of Tony Bennett, but Chicago is the Hog Butcher and "player with railroads and nation's freight handler." Though the trains don't run, and though the hogs are gone...
...Angeles and Las Vegas they flock to Country Star for barbecued twang and to Dive!--the submarine creation of Dreamworks' filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg--for simulated undersea adventures. Dive! has also surfaced on the Barcelona waterfront. The Harley Davidson Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...