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What are round and orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the middle of front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIT PRODUCTS: It's Here: The Great Pumpkin | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

The American grocery store, claims Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, has become a "Tower of Babel." Consumers need to be linguists, scientists and mind readers to understand the overblown health claims on labels that blare at them from supermarket shelves. And even those skills may not be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Less Baloney on the Shelves | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

But impatience with inflated health claims on labels is already producing a mild crackdown. Phoenix Fiber Cookies were touted as being low in fat and calories, high in fiber and useful for treating cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, diabetes and diverticulitis. Last May the munchables were whisked off supermarket shelves by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Less Baloney on the Shelves | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

IT WAS cold in my room last night. Very cold. In fact, it was so cold that my books were hurling themselves off my shelves begging for the cutesy bookcovers I had given up in third grade.

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Cold Night in Hell | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

Burrough is the biggest beneficiary yet of readers' hunger for tales about the pratfalls of the corporate elite. For many other top financial journalists, six-figure book advances have become the rule. Publishers pay handsomely for such potential blockbusters as author Ken Auletta's probe of the television industry, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Got That $1 Million Story | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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