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...cracking down on the parent bake sales as well as the corporate vending machines, Combs has avoided a plate-throwing confrontation with big contractors who bristled at the suggestion that their products were making kids fat. Some suppliers of prepared school lunches have even embraced new rules that set a weekly limit on the amount of fat and sugar in the meals. Food-service provider Aramark, for instance, offers popular dishes like penne Alfredo made with less fat. Pizza Hut has reconfigured its school pizza to meet the new fat requirements. Frito-Lay brought in baked chips rather than fried...
...always so simple. What one couple decides may not sit well with extended family or with their kids (see box). Three years ago, Noelle Hawton of Bloomington, Minn., was driving to church on Christmas Eve with her husband and his family when they passed a homeless man digging a plate out of a Dumpster. "It made me think about how stupid it was to be stressed out over gifts that none of us really needed," Hawton recalls. That night, she and her in-laws had a long, emotional discussion and chose to stop exchanging gifts the following year. Instead, they...
...crack of a bat, the pop of a glove, the infield chatter—these are the sounds that define him. His voice registers only the number of outs in an inning, though he might encourage a teammate at the plate in a clutch situation. On the field, the voice is secondary; the glove and the bat speak...
...cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan--a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition--which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving...
...timers, by cracky, who saw the Red Sox lose their first World Series, way back in 1946. I was 16 and hitchhiked from Iowa City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Mo., for Game 1. I slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket for behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers--and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids, but most of them have never...