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Hollywood, Fla., is an overlooked burg outshone by Miami on one side and Fort Lauderdale on the other, trying to grab some limelight with a string of sushi and blues restaurants. One such establishment is Shuckums Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill, a music showcase with the requisite life-size shark mounted on an ocean-colored wall. It was at Shuckums, on Sept. 8, that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi did some pre-mass murder tippling. Atta drank vodka and orange juice, while Al-Shehhi preferred rum and cokes, five drinks apiece. "They were wasted," the bartender recalled, and Atta...
...been, in effect, exiled for the summer, in the care of our teenage Aunt Sally, to a small vacation cottage (no electricity, no running water) on a backcountry farm absentee-owned by a friend of my father's. You went a mile down a dirt road crusted with crushed oyster shells until you came to the cottage. The yard was overgrown with tall grass, and if you weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. There was a ramshackle dock with many...
HEAVY METAL Calcium supplements may be delivering more than you bargained for. A study of 22 brands shows that fully one-third contain detectable levels of lead. Making matters worse, the contamination was not restricted to one type of calcium, such as that derived from oyster shells, or to one manufacturer, because lead levels in the same brand varied from lot to lot. To be hurt by the lead, you would have to consume high doses of calcium over many years, so researchers don't suggest you stop taking the pills. But they do call on the industry...
...jumpsuits pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer got sick. "I could get sued," she says...
...Someone to Watch Over Me - George & Ira Gershwin (performed by anyone except Elton John) 2. The Way You Look Tonight - Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields (performed by Fred Astaire) 3. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Donald Roeser (performed, of course, by Blue Oyster Cult) 4. Your Cheating Heart - Williams by Williams 5. Round Midnight - Thelonious by Thelonious (most particularly the solo piano version) 6. He's a Quiet Guy - Supposedly by Phil Spector with Poncia/Andreoli Phil probably had nothing to do with it; performed by Darlene Love on the B side of "Stumble and Fall" 7. Telstar - Joe Meek (performed...