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...cooking. The Irish Turf Board said last week that sometime this fall it aims to start selling briquettes of the material -- packed in shamrock-adorned cardboard boxes containing twelve lbs. each -- in U.S. supermarkets. Ireland's peat harvesters hope the carton of sod will be a popular souvenir item among the 44 million Americans of Irish descent. John Foley, the Turf Board's marketing manager, envisions Americans burning peat on Christmas and St. Patrick's Day. Says he: "There is a market in the U.S., but not as an everyday product." Since not everyone relishes the aroma of burning...
...sexiness, kawaii ((cuteness)) and fresh energy." Yamato made 100 of the figures before the Foreign Ministry called the firm's attention to a critical article about the mannequins in the Washington Post. The company stopped production. Sanrio Co., the manufacturer of a well-selling line of toys and gift items, followed suit. Its products included large-eyed dolls called Sambo and Hannah, and towels, bags and stationery goods decorated with pictures of the pair. Along with a big-lipped black doll named Bibinba, the line brought Sanrio more than $11 million in sales last year. "We were making a summer...
...detective fiction, a young woman reporter bursts into the newsroom on her first day to tell her bosses she has come upon a murdered corpse just a few hundred yards from their office -- only to have it explained to her that unless the victim is a household name, this item has no news value. The young woman soon learns to excel at the chicanery by which the tabloid's "stories" are concocted, yet keeps pondering the disappearance of the corpse and other oddities until her legitimate reportorial instincts first imperil and then save her. The mystery does not equal...
...that happy though ever distant day when David moves into his new house, one item will surely go with him. It is the mounted head of the nine-point buck he and his father shot last fall. David remembers: "We came to skin the deer, and Dad looks at it and says, 'I'm going to have that mounted.' Then he was tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot...
...Before Jesse Jackson's speech, Bradley is scheduled for a short item on the candidate, but there are no CBS minicams in sight. Zirinsky spots a distant stationary camera and frantically waves her notebook marked by a bright yellow Z. The cameraman sees her and dips the camera up and down in recognition. Bradley airs his spot...