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CHICAGO On Michigan Avenue, where $12,000 alligator handbags sell like pork futures, the favorite is Yves Saint Laurent's mauve cashmere coat, right. "People are really responding to color," says Phyllis Collins, senior European buyer for Marshall Field...
...meandering route? In 2001 the Alaska state legislature enacted a law blocking the cheaper northern pipeline. Lawmakers wanted a pork-barrel project to keep construction and supplier jobs in the state. State representative Jim Whitaker, a Fairbanks Republican who sponsored the measure, summed up the state's attitude: "The legislature has a responsibility to ensure that Alaska gas goes to market in a manner that is in the maximum best interest of the people of the state of Alaska." Congress has agreed...
...enjoyed many of his meals at City Tavern, would be pleased to see that the replica of the original, which burned in 1834, honors its predecessor's layout and even the apparel of the 18th century serving staff. The authentic recipes for such fare as apple-wood-smoked pork chops give diners a taste of the past...
...barbecue grills and using CDs of Songs of the Humpback Whale for bait, you're not alone. Junko Sakurai of Greenpeace Japan doubts officials will make much of an effort to rescue beached whales if they know they can trade them in at the local supermarket. "We have pork, chicken, beef and fish. Why do we need whale?" says Sakurai, although as a member of Greenpeace, she may not be the best judge of the succulent taste of a nicely grilled finback-whale steak...
...reach for those pork rinds just yet. While the new studies showed an initial benefit, the advantages gradually disappeared over the long term. After a year, folks on the low-carb diet had regained much more weight than those on low-fat diets. And as Dr. Dean Ornish--on the opposite side of many a debate with Atkins--points out, you would expect HDL levels to go up with a low-carb diet, since HDL acts as a kind of dump truck for scavenging fatty compounds. It will also take years to determine whether low-carb diets--which stint...