Word: spock
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Vegetarianism has not always been so fashionable. Just two years ago, the late Dr. Benjamin Spock provoked outrage among some parents and pediatricians when he recommended that all kids over the age of two should eat a strictly vegan diet. Some are still opposed to vegan diets for kids. But increasingly, nutritionists, educators and parents--all too aware of a nationwide obesity epidemic--are taking more relaxed vegetarian diets in stride. In an effort to reduce fat in federally subsidized school lunches, the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this year expanded the use of soy as a nutritious alternative...
...broad interpretation of Dr. Spock, my parents let me extend my usual four hours a day of allotted TV time if I played with other kids or did a sport. Unable to catch, throw or run, I was forced to convince them that bowling was a sport, thereby staving off continued humiliation on the soccer field. But walking around Sydney's Olympic Village, where I witnessed a giant blond Norwegian couple making out, Brazilian basketball players scootering by and Cuban boxers hogging the snowboarding video game, I was once again reminded of how out of place I am among...
...object of Seaman is to take care of a slimy, sinister creature that looks like a fish with a human face and that will return the favor by verbally abusing you. Oh, yeah, Seaman also features a voice-over narration by Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Mr. Spock). It's just about the weirdest experience you're ever likely to have in front of your television...
Trekkie news traveling at warp speed: University of Texas astronomer WILLIAM COCHRAN has discovered a Jupiter-size planet in the same orbit that Star Trek lore says you would find Vulcan, MR. SPOCK'S home world. That would be somewhere orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, just a hop, skip and parsec from Earth, or 10.5 light-years to be exact...