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...Average” ($2.79), while the ambitious will easily down the foot-long milk chocolate “Mac Daddy” ($19.99). Chandra, a college student shopping for her “man” this Valentine’s Day, believes the latter item confirms a popular stereotype. “It’s true what they say about chocolate dicks!” she says. Like frosting? Try the cream-filled “Tall Texan.” Everything’s bigger in Texas...
...most noticeable item in the window of Montrose Spa, a small convenience store and sandwich shop up Mass. Ave. toward Porter Square, is a t-shirt bearing the text “02138: The world’s most opinionated zip code.” The sartorial statement has become a best-seller—a testament to confidence (at least among Montrose Spa clientele) in the slogan’s veritas...
...Record" item on radioactive nuclear waste that will be buried in Yucca Mountain, Nev. [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 21], referred to the Energy Secretary as Abraham Spencer. The correct name is Spencer Abraham. In the same item, we said the buried waste will remain radioactive for 10,000 years. Instead, the figure 10,000 is the number of years of storage the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency require to meet radiation-protection standards...
...item so impressed one 18-year-old reader that she searched online for his name, located a Perspective article Perl-Rosenthal had written and e-mailed a Perspective editor, asking Perspective to forward her message to Perl-Rosenthal. “Flipping through the pearly-smiled, pop princess-inspired pages of Seventeen magazine, I would never have guessed (or be as impressed) to find words about an activist like you,” she wrote. Perl-Rosenthal says he corresponded with the girl, who he reports was very friendly...
...just not pumped up for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Hell, if these games weren’t being held in America I probably wouldn’t flip on the television at all. The only interesting item to watch may be Friday’s opening ceremonies, when the U.S. team marches in with the tattered flag that was found at Ground Zero...