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...what to do now? In my view, the most effective antidote to the sense of anxiety and helplessness is a meaningful plan of action. The process must start with accurate, balanced information that is neither hysterical nor overly sugar-coated. Let's start with what we know...
Would you like milk or sugar with your tea? Or how about lower electricity bills? Disgusted with their utility companies' plans to hike electricity rates as much as 55% in 2007, Illinoisans are throwing their version of the Boston Tea Party, sending tea bags with their bill payments as a sign of protest. Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, a legendary showman who has few official duties and plenty of time to think up such stunts, says thousands of tea bags have been sent to ComEd and Ameren, the state's largest utilities, since the protest began on Sept...
When Carroll Day Kimble spotted the bubble-gum cigarettes nestled among the wax lips, strips of candy buttons and Sky Bars in the Groovy Candies assortment, tears sprang to her eyes. "I remembered being 10 years old and how a puff of powdered sugar came out when you blew on them," recalls the voice-over casting director, 45, in Los Angeles. "I loved my childhood. It was about family and friends, not about the horror of life and all the terrible things out there...
...their original small-town manufacturers. Mallo Cups, for example, are still made by Boyer Candy in Altoona, Pa., and Chick-o-Sticks are in their 52nd year of production by Atkinson Candy in Lufkin, Texas. Some brands, like Fizzies, have changed their recipes, while other candies, like Jujubes and Sugar Daddys, contain the same ingredients that first enthralled the taste buds of the youngsters who grew up watching Howdy Doody and The Lone Ranger...
...both the changes that modernity wreaked on Cairo and the fabric of traditional Islamic life that resisted those changes. He wrote in elaborate classical Arabic, but his strength was as a mesmerizing tale-spinner. He's best known for his celebrated Cairo trilogy - Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street - which follows the fortunes of a merchant family not unlike his own through three tumultuous generations...