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CARL BECHDEL - Harrisburg, Pa...
...most measures, Kelly Bliss, 50, surely seems to have let herself go. The Lansdowne, Pa., resident stands 5 ft. 2 in. in her stockings but tips the scales at nearly 200 lbs. Run those numbers through the body mass index (BMI)--the statistical measure that factors height and weight to diagnose obesity--and Bliss scores higher than 35. Anything above 25 is overweight; anything above 30 is obese. In the nation's ongoing war with obesity-related health problems, Bliss is one more casualty, right...
...Pittsburgh, Pa., home where the artist grew up has been vacant and falling apart since 1999. Last month a planning and development group began talks with the owner to buy and restore it, perhaps for use by art students at nearby Carnegie-Mellon University...
DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...
DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across...