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...WERE IN New York exactly one week ago, you might have noticed a profoundly depressing item on the front page of The New York Times. More likely, you did not. The neighbor's dog may have spirited away the morning paper, and the single column article did not even make the out of town editions...
...following test was developed by Psychologists Lyle H. Miller and Alma Dell Smith at Boston University Medical Center. Score each item from 1 (almost always) to 5 (never), according to how much of the time each statement applies...
...country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something exotic." Patrick Terrail, owner of Hollywood's Ma Maison restaurant, had been importing dried mushrooms before he discovered that fresh morels, chanterelles, cepes and other varieties can all be found in the U.S. Says Terrail: "Mushrooms are just beginning to become a craze...
Quarterback John Elway of Stanford, the first item up for bid at the National Football League's annual college mart, declined to show his teeth to the Baltimore Colts, who did not win a game last season and therefore had the right to any sirloin in the shop. Herschel Walker, a fullback formerly of Georgia and currently of New Jersey, once spoke of challenging this entitlement in court but never got around to it. Elway, 22, a golden Californiabred whose pedigree is by Johnny Unitas out of Mickey Mantle, had another option: he could play baseball...
Dukakis also said that he has withdrawn a $36 million budget request for 2,450 new state jobs to free funds for the loans. The specific funding would still require legislative approval, probably as a budget item, added Frank Keefe, secretary of administration and finance. Keefe could not be reached for further comment last night because he was meeting with legislative leaders...