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...humble onion that stung taste buds and left telltale traces on the breath is being eclipsed by new, less pungent breeds. They include such varieties as the 1015 out of Texas, the Imperial Sweet (California) and the Maui (Hawaii). Never mind that some of these hybrids pack all the consistency and taste of an unripe cantaloupe; never mind that they may serve to decorate a salad but will do nothing to spice up a stew. The National Onion Association reports that, thanks largely to the new designer hybrids, consumers are no longer holding their noses and that U.S. consumption...
...expect less, we want less, but we want less to be better," says Devin Schaumburg, 20, of Knoxville. "If we're just trying to pick up the pieces, put it all back together, is there a label for that?" That's a laudable notion, but don't hold your breath till they find their answer. "They are finally out there, saying 'Pay attention to us,' but I've never heard them think of a single thing that defines them," says Martha Farnsworth Riche, national editor of American Demographics magazine...
...weeks after the Wall had fallen, Giersiepen and his wife visited Berlin. "You felt as if you had been touched by the breath of history," he says. "I am happy, not so much that Germany has come together -- we should not be too jubilant about that -- but that Europe has grown bigger, that it no longer ends at the Elbe, and that we are part...
Sport is too often a cruel reminder of life's diminishing returns. Fans watch an aging hitter's creaky swing, or a runner's lethargy on the base paths, or a pitcher's loss of velocity and feel the beer breath of mortality on their own necks. Nolan Ryan, whom sportswriter Thomas Boswell has called "the Act of God," is the wondrous exception to this melancholy rule. The Texas Ranger hurler is 43 years old now, and he has more major league records than candles on his next birthday cake...
Hollywood is holding its breath, waiting to measure the box-office potential of Warren Beatty's $30 million Dick Tracy, which opened last weekend. But the film community's anxiety has not stopped movie moguls from laying plans to bring more comic characters to the screen...