Word: supermarket
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Moving robotlike in a supermarket checkout line, you'd perk up when you noticed that the magazine rack brandished the latest issue of the Weekly World News. Other tabloids would scream at you with the purported indiscretions of celebrities. But on the cover of WWN you'd see a headline so farfetched that it would instantly stick in your mind and be impossible to remove, like the ice pick in Trotsky's skull...
...tatty black-and-white stock, WWN was the journalistic guilty pleasure of the '80s and' 90s. And now it has nonetheless received an affectionate media sendoff. One writer called it "the newspaper of record for astrology and giant tumor-related news"; another, "easily the world's best drunken supermarket impulse buy." Bat Boy Lives!: The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World, a 2005 book that compiled some of the paper's most shocking (i.e., silliest) stories, quotes Johnny Depp as saying, "The only gossip I'm interested...
...change the way we eat. We may not even notice until we wake up and realize that something is in fact very different about the way we dress or how we live or what we're eating. Did you think about organic food in the local supermarket 10 years ago? Would you ever have worn all black clothing 20 years...
Kong Junying, a 50-year-old housewife, stood seething at the entrance of a supermarket in northeastern Beijing with a salted egg in hand. Kong, her husband and 18-year-old son live on just 2,000 renminbi ($260) a month, and over the first half of this year, she has seen the price of groceries take a bigger and bigger chunk of the couple's fixed income. What was a 300 renminbi ($40) monthly bill is now 500 renminbi ($66) and prices are still rising. Hence the salted egg, which Kong is buying instead of meat. "We are still...
While you aspire to your six-pack abs, your miracle diet, your glamorous life in rehab, my supermarket checkout time is spent in a world without pretense. It's a world where we good, simple men have to prepare for danger lurking from aliens, protect an Elvis who is reassuringly ALIVE! but still eating poorly, and be aware that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein (also ALIVE!) are involved in a tumultuous, shaved-ape-adopting love affair in France. The Weekly World News fulfilled my reporter fantasies by ignoring the facts and my reader fantasies by doing it with very...