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...Elimidate, Change of Heart, A Dating Story and "a dating-auction show that never aired called The Gamut." Kelly Ryan, a waitress in Studio City, Calif., parlayed a Blind Date appearance into stints on dating-game shows SexWars (she won $4,000) and Friends or Lovers. Ryan played the wild girl on her date, coaxing her beau into a hot-tub dip (surprise!) and a shower. The budding nightclub singer said her bikinied escapades helped increase her, er, visibility. "So many customers would tell me they saw me," she says. "They've played my segment close to 80 times...
State investigators, who in mid-July were tipped off to the eerie coincidence, caution that it is too early to come to any conclusions. The fear, however, is that chronic wasting disease, a mad cow-like illness that affects wild game, may have jumped the so-called species barrier. The fatal disease, which makes animals listless, has been endemic in Colorado herds for decades and was spotted in Wisconsin deer in February. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the illness is caused by infectious agents called prions that are not destroyed by cooking...
Whole Foods, along with its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo., is riding a surge of interest in so-called natural and organic foods. While such foods account for just 3% of Americans' grocery bills, they attract higher-income buyers and yield fatter profits for grocers and producers. And a parade of food scares--mad-cow disease, hormones and antibiotics in meat and milk, pesticides in produce, genetically altered "Frankenfoods"--is propelling more shoppers to go organic. Result: sales of natural and organic foods are growing at an 18% annual clip and are projected to surpass...
...colorful market in East Timor. Out front, Timorese ponies are parked five to a row. In the back, roosters fight to the death, egged on by craggy mountain men dressed in woolen shawls and wide-brimmed hats. In the market, women sell everything from palm wine and shags of wild tobacco to the beautifully handwoven rugs and blankets known as tais. Don't expect to haggle over prices. The recent introduction of the U.S. dollar as the country's official currency has confused many, and the stall owners prefer for now to keep prices fixed until they can master...
...begins a tale in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of six stories set in Japan immediately following the 1995 earthquake that ravaged the city of Kobe and gave a psychic jolt to the entire nation. In Murakami's novels, including A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before...