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...sounded too good to be true, and it probably was. The Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the organization that brought us the evils of Chinese food and movie house popcorn -- claimed Wednesday that the fat substitute olestra is too dangerous to be put into the nation's potato chips. "The basic problem is that there isn't enough evidence that this product is safe," says TIME's Alice Park. "Olestra seems to deplete the body of essential vitamins, and its use raises some questions about other health risks that we need to know the answers to before...
...Losers box in Chronicles.) His rambunctious sensibility, says senior editor Bruce Handy, "prevents Milestones from becoming gloomy or sterile. These are rich lives, and he's able to evoke them in a flash." For a sample, just look at Quinn's obit of Orville Redenbacher, America's prince of popcorn, in this week's section...
DIED. ORVILLE REDENBACHER, 88, popcorn potentate; in Coronado, California. His persona on TV spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors...
...animated commentators Maurice Ashley ("E-5? Funky!") and Danny King, amateurs and grand masters alike try to anticipate each move. When either player holds his head in his hands for half an hour or so, a fan can wander off for such ballpark staples as hot dogs and popcorn or have a trick picture taken that shows himself or herself sitting across the table from Kasparov. The show is part chessboard, part boardwalk...
...intimately linked. Starting last Wednesday morning, Captain Swenson-in his first taste of combat-and dozens of other nato pilots began bombing the Serbs in retaliation for the massacre Durakovic had witnessed. "I saw explosions 30 or 40 miles away," said Swenson. "They seemed to be everywhere, like popcorn going off." What no one thought would ever happen finally...