Daily Digest for 9/17/97
Harpoon gun may offer clues
Stolen antique was left at fire scene
By Maureen Boyle, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- Authorities hope a harpooning gun crafted nearly 200 years ago may point to whoever set the blaze that gutted a historic downtown building last week.
The brass gun, crafted in New Bedford in the 1800s and stolen from Moby Dick Specialties the night of the general alarm blaze, was found in nearby bushes. Investigators now hope fingerprints of the thief and possible arsonist may be on it.
"It was in the bushes standing straight up. We believe they had intentions of coming back and getting it," Fire Lt. Ronald Auger, one of the investigators, said.
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College all can afford
State considers cost reductions
By Gwenn Friss, Cape Cod Times
BARNSTABLE -- Massachusetts community colleges will be free for some and cheaper for most in the next millennium if the state Board of Higher Education approves the latest cost-reduction plan, unveiled yesterday.
Under the sliding-scale proposal, students from families earning $25,000 or less would attend two-year schools such as Bristol Community College at no cost.
Those with family income between $25,000 and $40,000 would pay a net cost of $250 per year; earners between $40,000 and $80,000 would pay $500.
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Midtown Bowl neighbors in the dark
By Joe Beaird, Standard-Times staff writer
DARTMOUTH -- A former bowling alley on Route 6, whose owner withdrew plans to turn it into a 200-seat strip club earlier this year, is again under construction, but what the site will become remains a mystery.
The former Midtown Bowl can not be turned into an adult strip club -- even if it doesn't serve alcohol -- because of zoning restrictions passed in October that prohibit "adult use" businesses within a thousand feet of residential housing. "Adult use" businesses include those with a sexual focus, like strip clubs and pornographic video stores.
An advertisement running in The Standard-Times since last week touts openings for limo drivers, security guards, wait staff, and other personnel characteristic of a night club to work at the Midtown Bowl Complex for "top pay."
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Police seek end to speedy chases
By David Rising, Standard-Times staff writer
WAREHAM -- With three high-speed chases in the past month, including one through a crowded festival and another through a golf course, police are trying to make them a thing of the past.
With the purchase of two "Stinger Spike Systems," the police department hopes to be able to stop the chases before they endanger anybody.
"The reason why we purchased them is for the safety of the community and the officers," said Patrol Division Capt. Paul J. Cardalino.
The department scrounged up the $600 per unit after a chase through Onset during the crowded Blues Festival in early August.
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EPA: Atlas cleanup still 3-4 years away
By Jack Stewardson, Standard-Times staff writer
FAIRHAVEN -- An EPA official says a contract to clean up the Atlas Tack Superfund site is still three to four years away from being signed.
Larry H. Brill, chief of the redemption and restoration branch with the EPA's regional offices in Boston, has forwarded that prospective timetable as part of a best and worst case scenario for cleaning up the site of the former tack manufacturer.
In a letter to selectmen, Mr. Brill says an optimistic projection for awarding a contract would be June 2000 while a pessimistic schedule could put that back to September 2001.
The letter is in response to a request selectmen made to the EPA a few weeks ago to apprise them of when the remediation of the Pleasant Street hazardous waste site might begin.
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Habitual drunk driver freed 11 years after fatal car crash
By Maureen Boyle, Standard-Times staff writer
After 11 years behind bars, the man convicted a dozen times of drunk driving before killing a New Bedford couple in another drunk-driving crash was set free yesterday.
Kenneth W. Davidson, 43, of Lowell was released from MCI Norfolk, 11 years and four months after he was convicted of two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of Helen and Rene Bachand in 1986.
"Where is the justice for the victims and the survivors?" asked Albert Benjamin, the couple's brother-in-law. "This is a man who killed two people; this is ridiculous that he is out."
Mr. Davidson, once called a "menace to society," was convicted July 22, 1986, of felony vehicular homicide and manslaughter in connection with the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Bachand, who were driving home to New Bedford after visiting their son's family in Manchester, N.H.
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Rodney Metals under fire
Neighbors fuming at odors
By William Corey, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- Neighbors of Teledyne Rodney Metals are fuming over the emission of a yellow-orange smoke from the South End manufacturer, claiming it's causing health problems and damaging vegetation.
A crowd of about 40 people filled the Hazelwood Park Community Center last night, telling city, state and company officials that the plant -- which employs about 315 people and makes batteries, film and cameras -- is also producing loud noises and sickening fumes.
"Today, I discovered I have problems with my kidneys," said James Vieira, a neighbor of the plant. "Rodney Metals has destroyed my life. I have to know the emissions. I don't want to die at 49."
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Auto-detail firm nearly washed up
Owner says pollution restriction could ruin her
By John B. Everton, Standard-Times correspondent
WESTPORT -- Selectmen say they are concerned about the environment and keeping the water supply clean. But a local businesswoman says they are guilty of doublespeak.
Delores Medeiros owns the Auto Salon, a car-detailing business at 1018 State Road. She and her employees clean cars inside and out. They wax and buff the exterior and clean the upholstery.
They also shine the tires -- but they can't use water to clean them -- not until Ms. Medeiros installs expensive environmental equipment to catch the runoff from tires during wheel-washing.
The town's had water pollution problems. A number of wells were contaminated when a local businessman allowed dry-cleaning solvent to seep into the ground, and a $1.5 million water line is under construction to supply clean water to affected residents.
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U.S. wins 24-hour delay in land mine treaty talks
By Jim Heintz, Associated Press writer
OSLO, Norway -- In a last-minute move to force changes in a proposed treaty banning land mines, the United States won a 24-hour postponement yesterday in talks on drafting the pact.
The Clinton administration is seeking several exceptions to a proposed ban on anti-personnel mines, which would be total and immediate. The U.S. delegation had been expected to present a compromise proposal when the more than 100-nation meeting resumed yesterday after a weekend break.
But Eric Newsom, head of the U.S. delegation to the talks, requested the one-day postponement, saying the United States needed more time to talk to other governments about changes that "would enable the United States to endorse this treaty."
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Three fugitives arrested in N.H. slaying probe
By The Associated Press
CADILLAC, Mich. -- Michigan authorities are holding three young Massachusetts men sought for questioning in the stabbing deaths of two New Hampshire teen-agers.
State police arrested the three about 10 p.m. Monday, two hours after receiving a tip that they were hiding in the house near Manton, about 25 miles south of Traverse City.
"We got a tip on a house and we were checking the residence in that area ... and a search revealed all three suspects hiding in an upstairs room," Sgt. Jeff Herweyer said from the state police post at Cadillac.
State police identified the men as James Grant, 20, of Fitchburg; and Eric Jeleniewski, 19, and Christopher Doucette, 18, both of Lunenburg. Doucette formerly lived in Manton.
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Doctors say Diana's bodyguard able to talk
By Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press writer
PARIS -- The man who may hold the key to the mystery of why Princess Diana's Mercedes crashed in a Paris tunnel -- bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones -- is conscious and able to communicate, doctors said yesterday.
The news raised hopes that investigators could soon question the 29-year-old British former paratrooper and sole survivor of the high-speed crash last month.
The accident in the early-morning hours of Aug. 31 killed Diana, her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul.
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Debris from planes found off Namibia's Skeleton Coast
By Tom Cohen, Associated Press writer
WINDHOEK, Namibia -- Searchers found debris yesterday from a U.S. cargo plane in the same cold, shark-infested waters where they found remnants of a German aircraft, confirming the two military planes crashed off Namibia's Skeleton Coast.
The prospects of finding survivors from Saturday's crash were "getting slimmer," said Lt. Col. Eddie Brown of South Africa, who is overseeing the search effort.
He said nothing has been heard since faint distress signals were detected Sunday and early Monday. The water, at 59 degrees, "is cold, and I believe there are also sharks in the area," he added.
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Air Force stops search for missing bombs
By The Associated Press
EAGLE, Colo. -- Frustrated and puzzled after a 72-day sweep, the Air Force yesterday gave up the search for the four 500-pound bombs from an A-10 warplane that crashed mysteriously in the Rockies.
"I'm not going to speculate as to where they are. I'm just going to stick to the facts," Brig. Gen. Donald Streater said. "We have not found any conclusive evidence of the bombs."
During the five-month sweep of 13,300-foot Gold Dust Peak, Air Force crews recovered the remains of A-10 pilot Capt. Craig Button along with nine tons of debris from the 13-ton aircraft, but found no trace of the bombs.
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Region swimming in aquarium projects
Mystic breaks ground on $52 million expansion
By John Estrella, Standard-Times staff writer
Bulldozers ripped up the aquarium's parking lot in Mystic, Conn., yesterday, the first step in adding $52 million in renovations.
It is the first of four marine center proposals to start in a wave of $250 million in plans backers say will eventually become a series of aquariums in the Northeast so good that people will plan vacations around them.
The two established aquariums, the one in Mystic and the New England Aquarium in Boston, are already destinations for more than 2 million people a year.
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State legislators return to full fall
By Martin Finucane, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- They were working on the ornate clock in the deserted House chamber yesterday. Fifteen feet up a ladder, a man was fiddling with the screws, trying to put the clock face back on.
No matter what the clock says, everyone knows what time it is at the Statehouse.
It's time to get back to work.
Fresh from a summer vacation break, the state's 200 lawmakers are returning today to formal sessions, to butting heads in debate over the state's big issues.
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Wall Street in the cards for Weld?
By Glen Johnson, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- William Weld resigned as governor of Massachusetts in July and now he's abandoned his bid to become U.S. ambassador to Mexico, but don't expect him to end up in a soup line any time soon.
Aides say Weld, who yielded Monday to a political roadblock in the form of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., will most likely head to Wall Street for a lucrative career in investment banking.
But he will take with him a heightened political stock. And if it's invested wisely, analysts say, that may help the Republican land a Cabinet appointment, a seat in the U.S. Senate or his own campaign for the presidency somewhere down the road.
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McGovern to run for governor
By Martin Finucane, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- Former state Sen. Patricia McGovern vowed to bring a woman's perspective to the governor's race and to focus on improving education and health care as she announced her candidacy yesterday.
"Frankly, it is time that Massachusetts finally breaks through the glass ceiling," McGovern, 56, of Andover, said in a news conference at a downtown hotel attended by about 50 supporters, most of them women.
McGovern, who served six terms in the Senate from 1981 to 1993 and eight years in the influential post of Ways and Means chairman, will be competing with Attorney General Scott Harshbarger for the Democratic nomination.
Former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn also is expected to announce his candidacy.
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Regional electricity costs still higher
By Richard Lorant, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- Residents of eastern Massachusetts last month paid 25 percent more than the national average for their electricity.
It's been that way for years.
According the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, electric power in the Interstate 495 belt has cost 20-29 percent more than the national average since 1994. And the gap went further back than that.
"The last time they were close was 1989 for one month. Since 1978, we have seldom paid less," said Mary Sullivan, the BLS regional economist.
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Sale in works for local Calvin Klein jeans maker
By The Wall Street Journal
Apparel maker Warnaco Group Inc., which manufactures lingerie and underwear for designer Calvin Klein, is in talks to buy Designer Holdings Ltd., the maker of Calvin Klein jeans in New Bedford, people close to the negotiations say.
Terms under discussion couldn't be determined, but the stock market Monday valued Designer Holdings at $263.3 million, based on a closing share price of $8.1875.
Attempts by The Standard-Times to reach local company officials at the Rodney French Boulevard plant were unsuccessful.
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Co-founder Jobs named interim CEO of Apple
By David E. Kalish, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- Apple Computer Inc. yesterday formally named Steve Jobs as interim chief executive and disclosed it may not find a permanent leader until the end of the year -- six months from Gil Amelio's July 9 ouster from the job.
Jobs, the legendary co-founder of Apple, has been acting as CEO since Amelio's departure two months ago created a power vacuum that raised fresh questions about the computer company's ability to survive.
The appointment renewed speculation that Jobs, who has said he doesn't want the position, would wind up as CEO after all.
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Investors flock to blue chips
By Bruce Meyerson, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- Investors flocked back into blue-chip stocks yesterday, boosting the Dow Jones industrial average by nearly 175 points, as the economy continued to defy expectations with a mixture of brisk growth and low inflation.
The Dow rose 174.78, or nearly 2.3 percent, to 7895.92, scoring its fourth biggest point-gain ever.
Broader stock measures dominated by smaller companies rose to the latest in a series of record highs.
But analysts were more impressed with the robust gains of the battered blue-chip sector, which has yet to fully recover from last month's downturn.
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Clinton lobbies for trade legislation
By David Espo, Associated Press writer
WASHINGTON -- Plunging into a difficult fight, President Clinton led an aggressive lobbying effort in Congress yesterday for passage of legislation designed to promote future trade deals. Organized labor countered with a costly ad campaign in opposition.
While senior aides provided details of the long-delayed legislation to key lawmakers of both parties, Clinton journeyed to the Capitol for a meeting with rank-and-file Democrats, many of them skeptical about the proposal.
In brief remarks before departing the White House, Clinton said that 12 million jobs are supported by exports. The nation "must embrace global growth and expand American exports," he said.
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Designers fall for autumn's hues
By Francine Parnes, For The Associated Press
Fall fashion's color palette is turning over a new leaf, and what's under it is a lot of moss.
And rust and red and bronze and orange.
These leafy hues add a splash of color to a season marked by haberdashers' darks and the ubiquitous black. They are particularly appealing in luxury fabrics.
Carolina Herrera has a leaf print in red, bronze and orange handpainted on a black silk velvet cocktail dress, while Bill Blass turned out a rust velvet evening pants ensemble. The jacket is embroidered with rust-color leaves and embellished with fake fur.
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Pregnancy warnings: Manufacturers often protecting themselves
By Redbook
For The Associated Press
Have pregnancy warnings gone too far?
Following today's unwritten rules and guarding against endless potential dangers has made pregnancy a time of inordinate stress and worry for many women, but knowing the truth can help women relax and even enjoy the experience.
In recent years, studies have uncovered links between certain substances and birth defects, both mild and severe. But the warnings go beyond realistic prudence, according to experts.
Some doctors, afraid of lawsuits if a pregnancy goes awry or a baby is born with a birth defect, are overcautious in their advice on foods, medications and activities. Drug manufacturers, also litigation wary, contribute to the climate of caution, said Dr. Lewis Holmes, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. They put the strongest possible warnings on drugs to protect themselves if a pregnant woman taking their drug happens to have a baby with a birth defect.
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Pet reptiles may carry salmonella
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco's love affair with pet reptiles has a darker side: A shocking 59 percent of all iguanas, turtles, snakes and other lizards for sale at city pet stores have been found to carry disease-causing bacteria, according to a new study by state and federal health officials.
Moreover, although more than 85 percent of pet store owners know the creatures can be infected by the bacteria, called salmonella, only 33 percent bothered to warn their customers.
The pets are in fine health. It is the new owners, typically youngsters, who become sick. Salmonella, the nation's No. 1 cause of bacteria-related stomach upset, works by invading the intestine, damaging underlying cells and creating tiny ulcerations that bleed.
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Indians outlast Spartans
By Bob Hanna, Standard-Times staff writer
DARTMOUTH -- It looked like an insurance goal at the time, but it turned out to be the game-winner as the Dartmouth Indians held off the charging Spartans, 2-1, last night at Dartmouth Memorial Stadium.
Sarah Cashman's goal gave Dartmouth a 2-0 lead with 4:30 left, but Bishop Stang's Lauren Asp came back with a goal with one minute left as this long-standing rivalry went right down to the wire.
The victory lifted Dartmouth to 3-0-1, while Stang fell to 2-2-0.
Ironically, Cashman's shot went off the foot of Stang defender Rebecca Osuch, who in trying to clear the ball inadvertently deflected it into the Stang net.
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Road game brings Bears' assistant home
Clarry Brooks wants you to know that if you have tickets for Sunday's game against the Bears, he'll be happy to take them off your hands.
"I've got a ticket list a mile long," said Brooks, the former New Bedford High standout and now defensive line coach of the Bears. "I hope to be able to take care of everybody, but the ticket list has grown since the day the schedule came out last spring up until this morning. I get calls from people who know me and want to be at the game. But it's a fun thing."
The Bears come to Foxboro on Sunday, marking Brooks' first return to New England as a professional coach. As an assistant in college, his Syracuse teams played Boston College there a couple of times, but that seems like a lifetime ago. He's coaching with the Big Boys now, even though his team doesn't play like a Big Boy.
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Vaughn sure Sox don't want him
By Jimmy Golen, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- Fearful of an off-season trade and a hurtful public-relations campaign like the one he thinks the Red Sox launched against Roger Clemens, Mo Vaughn said yesterday it won't be his fault if he's not playing for Boston next year.
"I'm not going to go out like Roger Clemens and be questioned for my integrity and questioned as a man," Vaughn said of the three-time Cy Young Award winner's bitter departure last winter. "The Red Sox can't act as if our camp didn't do everything possible to make a deal get done."
Vaughn said management was setting him up to be blamed when contract negotiations failed.
"The Red Sox really do not want me here. Those are the facts. Also, it's what they put out to the fans and how they want the media to perceive it," Vaughn said.
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Sox aid Yanks' drive toward playoff berth
By Ben Walker, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- Willie Banks won in his first major league start in nearly two years, and the New York Yankees cut their magic number for clinching a playoff spot to four, beating Boston 4-3 last night to complete a doubleheader sweep.
In the opener, Andy Pettitte struck out a career-high 12 in eight innings as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox 2-0.
The Yankees won their fourth in a row and increased their edge to nine games over Anaheim for the wild-card spot. The Angels played Minnesota later.
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Little league, big bats
6th Bristol wins slugfest, 11-6
By Bob Huckabee, Standard-Times correspondent
NEW BEDFORD -- A pair of big innings and a steady relief effort by Josh Lima proved to be the difference last night as the 6th Bristol Club defeated the New Bedford Police Union, 11-6, to take a one game lead in the best-of-three City Little League Championship Series.
Both teams wore their hitting shoes and combined to rattle 20 hits around Clegg Field in a game that was a far cry from their previous meeting just five days ago when the teams battled for nine innings in a round robin qualifier game won by the Police, 1-0. Last night was a very different story.
6th Bristol lit up the scoreboard right away when Junior Cardoso lifted a double off the base of the centerfield fence and scored the game's first run when Lima's high chopper resulted in a Police misplay.
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No such thing as too many aquariums, says a new view
What Orlando, Florida is to theme parks, Southern New England may soon be to aquariums. The conventional wisdom says that there is a point at which one saturates the market, but now a countervailing wisdom is emerging that says, "the more the merrier." With backing from the state and from the casino-rich Mashantucket Pequot tribe, the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut has just begun work on an ambitious $52 million expansion and renovation. The New England Aquarium, meanwhile, is floating tax-exempt bonds for its own expansion. And the sky's the limit for both of them, even with New Bedford's proposed $105 million aquarium and marine science center in the mix.
How can this be?
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College tuition: America's No. 1 form of birth control
Here's why Americans no longer have big families: college. Suppose you had 12 children --
Ah, but you are laughing. "Twelve children," you are laughing. "Hah hah hah."
Well, you are laughing at my grandmother, and if she were here at this moment you would regret giving your laugh muscles such free play. All but one of her 12 were boys. A woman who has brought 11 boys to manhood does not do it by being a good sport when people laugh at her.
So suppose you had 12 children, of whom the oldest is about done with high school. You would be studying the college survey just published by U.S. News & World Report.
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A penny for your thoughts? Not a chance; see you in court
Evan Brown has something of great value. It is not silver or gold or a machine that turns dog fur into cashmere. It is an idea. As in a thought that is floating around his head.
Brown's idea has something to do with creating a new system that updates old computer software. Such innovative technology could bring in megabucks, which 45-year-old Brown does not care to share with his former employer.
His former employer begs to disagree. Don't go out and buy your Caribbean island just yet, DSC Communications has told Brown. Needless to say, suits have been filed. The matter is now before a district court in Collin County, Texas.
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Use the classic 'broken windows' strategy to curtail juvenile crime
Rarely a day goes by without a dramatic news story about yet another episode of youth violence. Indeed, both research studies and first-hand experience tell us that more of today's juveniles are involved in violent offending than in past generations. This is a reason for legitimate public concern and aggressive action, including a focus on law enforcement and other immediate public safety responses.
Nevertheless, violent and chronic juvenile offenders, labeled by some as "super predators," are actually few in number --just one-half of 1 percent of all youth ages 10-17 were arrested for a violent crime last year. Further, less than 5 percent of youth with a juvenile record are chronic and violent offenders.
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Lucky winner to get 'Simpsons' house
By Angie Wagner
Associated Press writer
Round a corner in the new Springfield subdivision of the booming town of Henderson, Nev., and you're awestruck by the wacky house and its 27 gaudy colors.
Mixed with the more mundane tan and stucco homes is an eye-popping power orange and solar yellow house that replicates the terrible tastes and absurd lifestyle of "The Simpsons."
A home builder has captured every detail of the TV cartoon family's life, from Marge's corn-print kitchen curtains to Homer's driveway grease spot from his car. The bizarre house captures the best (or worst) of television's longest-running animated prime-time series.
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Selleck sheds tough-guy image
in new film Kiss with Kline already generating buzz
By Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle
Sampson had his long hair.
Tom Selleck has his thick mustache.
Shave them off and they're just not the same guys.
Selleck manhandled villains and swept away women in "Magnum P.I." He outshot outlaws in a fistful of westerns. He was the irresistible ladies' man smitten by a little girl in "Three Men and a Baby."
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Food: Big draw at 'The Big E'
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
assistant features editor/columnist
Slice of Lifejweeks@s-t.com
For some folks, the draw of the Eastern States Exposition (known familiarly as "The Big E") is seeing big-name entertainers like Lorrie Morgan and Patty Loveless, while others are attracted by craft exhibits or handsome horseflesh.
But for others, the magnet that draws them to West Springfield is the food: pierogies, clam fritters, apple crisp, Finnish pancakes, Vermont cheddar.
New to the fair this year is the Harvest New England Food Demonstration Kitchen, sponsored by Bay State Gas Co. The state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen celebrates the bounty of the region's harvest with seminars, cooking demonstrations and tastings.
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Carrot-based V8 Splash misleads, disappoints
V8 Splash. Tropical Blend, Strawberry Kiwi, and Citrus Blend.
Price: 99 cents per 16-ounce glass bottle. Tropical Blend (only) also comes in 46-ounce size for $2.39.
Bonnie: Knowing that regular V8 is a blend of 100 percent vegetable juices, I was excited to hear about a new carrot-based V8 Splash. At least I was before I learned that the splash in the name apparently refers to the small amount of real juice these contain.
In fact, V8 Splash contains only a quarter of the juice of its 100-percent-juice namesake. V8 Splash is basically a blend of carrot and citrus juices and sugars. The Strawberry Kiwi even contains artificial colors.
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Not all tuna salads are mayo-laden
By The Associated Press
Tuna Pasta Salad is a healthy, low-fat salad, seasoned with an aromatic herb and yogurt dressing. Use water-packed tuna, jarred red peppers and corkscrew pasta.
Each serving has 12 grams of fat and 510 calories.
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The Web is a real grapevine for tips
By Michael Lonsford, Houston Chronicle
If you think I'm joking when I say my motto is "Bring back the quill pen," think again.
That doesn't mean I'm not cognizant of progress; I just don't like a lot of it. But like it or not, this is the electronic age, and it's almost impossible to get along without some kind of computer adroitness.
Fact is, like just about everyone else, I use the Internet as a research tool. Just doing a word search for obscure wines or grape varieties can yield a bonanza of information.
Now, from a group called the Wine Market Council, here's a list of what they call the Top 10 Web sites for learning about wine. To which I've added one more.
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Savoring the flavors of harvest
By The Associated Press
When you think of fall foods, think of fresh harvested vegetables, served with your favorite main dish.
Ann Cooper, executive chef of the Putney Inn in Putney, Vt., has combined corn and onions to serve with Charbroiled Flank Steak. She suggests Basil Stuffed Tomatoes and Vermont Maple Butter Butternut Squash as accompaniments.
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Software cookbook rescues the cooking-impaired
By Larry Blasko, Associated Press writer
Real men don't ask directions. Or follow recipes. A finely honed instinct guides our cooking skills.
In my case, most meals start with putting meat and vegetables into a large pot of water. When I turn the stove off, if the result is thin, it's soup. If it's thicker, it's stew.
Wife-person recently took off on a three-week trip. Daughter-person was working at a sleep-away camp. Faced with the prospects of my own cooking, I took a look at Mangia, a cookbook program from Sierra On-Line for Windows or Mac-based systems.
Mangia does several things that books in your kitchen library can't do. If you tell it what ingredients you have on hand, it will suggest a recipe. If you want to shop, it generates a grocery list for your menu.
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