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There's something fishy about the U.S. seafood industry, according to a new study that will appear in the February issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The study, carried out by investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman, found widespread contamination and mislabeling of seafood in retail fish shops and supermarkets in New York City and Chicago. Of the 113 random samples of fish purchased in both cities, 29% were spoiled and 44% were contaminated with fecal bacteria; 40% of the swordfish samples had an impermissible level of mercury...
When Larami, a Philadelphia toy company, introduced its Super-Soaker water gun this past spring, it was a success. But sales over the past few weeks have been so overwhelming that the item is completely sold out in stores. "We've sold millions," says company spokesman Bob Lieberman. "We have three factories in China working 24 hours a day, and we still can't keep up with the demand." They're also becoming hot in Europe and Japan...
...HARRY LIEBERMAN: A JOURNEY OF REMEMBRANCE, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City. Forty-five paintings recalling the lost world of prewar European Jewry. Through Sept...
...could George McGovern in the '92 presidential election. How about a two-George parlay? Giggles or not, jiggles or not, a lot of comebacking is being attempted at the world-class level in sports. A reasonable citizen may wonder what Foreman, Bjorn Borg, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nancy Lieberman Cline, John McEnroe, Jim Palmer, Mark Spitz and Jill Sterkel have in common. A reasonable answer might be they're nuts. They're all trying, or trying to try, or have recently tried, comebacks, holding high the torch for middle-aged wheezers everywhere...
Women athletes are no less susceptible to ego and endorphins than men, though their comebacks tend to be no-bucks, low-publicity events. But Nancy Lieberman Cline, 32, arguably the best woman basketball player ever, is working out several hours a day to make her third Olympic team, and sprint swimmer Jill Sterkel, 29, hopes to make her fifth. Why do it? Says Lieberman Cline: "As world-class athletes, we are treated special. Since the first moment anyone recognized we had an ounce of talent, we've been stroked. We're spoiled...