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Like Beavis & Butt-head, King of the Hill is a manifestation of Judge's longtime obsession with an America of tract homes and monster truck shows, Dairy Queens and Wal-Marts. "Mike has surrounded himself in Texas with great raconteurs," notes Sam Johnson, a former Beavis writer who is now executive story editor on NBC's NewsRadio. "They regale him with tales of misfit friends and trailer-park relatives. Mike is repelled by this world and also incredibly attracted...
...Sears, which has been putting up numbers that sparkle like Christmas tree lights. The company says sales, including revenue from its 1,500 automotive and specialty hardware and furniture stores, will rise about 9% to $38 billion this year. (That's second behind discounter Wal-Mart's more than $93 billion in volume.) And profits--about half of which come from the interest on Sears' 60 million credit cards--are projected to reach $1.25 billion, up a solid 25% over the record set last year. Wall Street has been delighted. Sears stock closed last week at $46.75, more than triple...
...expensive, the gap between the (long-lived) rich and the (mortal) poor will widen further. Finally, if you live to be 120 years old, you will have to work the majority of those years in order to survive. Do you really want a job as a greeter at Wal-Mart when you're 115 years old? BOB CHAMBERS San Diego Via E-mail...
...fruit flavors targeted at school-age kids. An 8-oz. serving of Grinnin' Grape or VeryVery Strawberry offers the nutritional benefits of regular milk and no fat. The downside: 24 g of sugar, on par with a can of soda. Introduced this summer, Smilk is being sold by 300 Wal-Mart superstores as well as in schools in several districts in Michigan. Says Gensamer: "This could be a billion-dollar business." (No doubt naysayers scoffed at the idea of diet peach iced tea too.) Similar products, such as Moo Kooler, from a dairy cooperative, are hitting supermarket shelves...
...being assisted down a corridor could not save his race. Though a majority of South Carolinians believe he should retire, Thurmond remains a tremendously popular figure in the state, known for his personal touch, and still spirited enough to call himself "the Thurmondator" in his folksy campaign appearances at Wal-Marts, barbecue restaurants and on courthouse steps. "This is the most traditional state in the Union," says Charles Dunn, a Clemson University political scientist. "We don't have a history of turning people out to pasture...