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...seem like much consolation until you consider the other arthritis--rheumatoid arthritis--which in severe cases can hit as fast and hard as a freight train. "People who are jogging one day," says Dr. Stanley Cohen of Dallas' St. Paul Medical Center, "can't get out of bed two weeks later...
...countertop, and from that moment on, she was convinced I was going to be a little performer." In need of cash, Sharon booked Twain in front of every open microphone in northern Ontario. If there were no talent shows or telethons, Sharon was not above hauling Twain out of bed in her pajamas to sing Dolly Parton covers before last call at a local...
...caught the disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation. In the 2003 edition of his guide, he strikes back, skewering pubs for misleading customers with fancy names and elaborate descriptions like "fresh tuna on a futon of leaves" for a salad garnish or "fried pork pojarski served on a bed of rocket with a cordon of sauce smitane" for a pork cutlet in cream sauce. "Good pubs rely on the quality of their cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star...
...fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...
...would draw more explicit morals from the story. The earliest, Charles Perrault’s “Le Petite Chaperon Rouge,” appeared in 1695 in his Tales of Times Past with Morals, the original Mother Goose tales. In this version, Red Riding Hood climbs into bed with the wolf—and is promptly devoured. Orenstein deftly shows us that the tale was intended as a morality fable for the decadent aristocracy under Louis XIV. In a society that both prized virginity and tolerated rampant sexual indiscretions, the tale cautioned ladies to “never...