| Tasty Comments on Bacon-Wrapped Dogs
I was incensed when I read Kate Coe's article "Tribes to Voters: How Dare You?" [Feb. 8-14]. You should be careful who you let freelance for your paper. The only things she got right were from my business card, which I gave her, and the AFL-CIO button I wear proudly. .
Looking for a hit
After five years, Aztecs fans are still waiting to realize those expectations. SDSU won a regular-season MWC championship in 2004, but the program's postseason drought has now reached 16 years. It hasn't been easy. In fact, it's been far more difficult than Gwynn ever imagined. His teams are 142-162. .
Men: Your Valentine's gift guide
We know you'd rather not have to worry about whether your material token of love will be deemed thoughtful enough or expensive enough or "meaningful" enough to satiate our long-held Valentine's Day expectations. And, we know that the whole Valentine's Day thing is a consumer-fueled, mass-marketed tradition that has as much to do with love as a lap dance and four strippers at a bachelor party have to do with marriage. But we can't help it. Just like you guys get all orgasmic at the thought of college football season, we girls get all wistful the moment you hand us a dozen roses and a Hallmark card on Feb. 14. "Had guys their druthers, there would be no Valentine's Day," says Jordan Burchette, executive editor of Maxim magazine online, which has a Valentine's Day gift guide for its readers.
Residents flock to the malls for Black Friday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...at the malls, that is. Thousands of early birds started their Christmas shopping, as today began the "other" annual holiday tradition: the first - and busiest - shopping day of the year. KUAM News hit the streets for a post-Thanksgiving report that proves that this Black Friday saw lots of green being exchanged in island shops.A recent survey from America's Research Group showed that 47% of Americans planned to shop on Black Friday. Residents flocked to the Micronesia Mall in Dededo this morning, as some of the popular stores opened for business at 6 in the morning. Holiday shopper Enid Cabatbat says the sales were worth waiting in the busy lines. She says when buying gifts for your loved ones, it's important to live within your means. "It's very important to have a budget because you don't want to go overboard and be in debt the whole year long of what you bought," she said.Cabatbat says popular items on her list today include clothing and appliances, all bought from Macy's Department Store.
Salty snacks mean more sodas for kids
Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. That's the idea coming from a British study published Wednesday in an American Heart Association journal. Salt is "a hidden factor in the obesity epidemic," said Graham MacGregor, a co-author of the study by researchers at St. George's University of London. And researchers say all that salt isn't coming from the salt shaker: About 80 percent comes from manufactured food. "Most people think that sodium comes from the salt shaker. The salt shaker contributes less than 10 to 15 percent," said Dr. Myron Weinberger, a professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. "Fast foods, for example, are just loaded with sodium.
Harris, Diop Star Again in Possible Kidd Trade
NEW ORLEANS, La. The Nets have agreed to trade Jason Kidd again. And this time, Devean George isn't around to rain on the parade. Days after a Kidd deal with Dallas went south because George vetoed a trade to the Nets, New Jersey is awaiting league approval on a deal with the Mavs that would send out Kidd and Malik Allen and return Devin Harris, DeSagana Diop, Trenton Hassell, Keith Van Horn, Maurice Ager, two first-round picks, and $3 million in cash. A side deal would send Antoine Wright to Dallas for a second-round pick in order to meet league roster requirements. The trade wouldn't be quite as good a deal as the original trade with Dallas, which had included Jerry Stackhouse and George instead of Hassell and Van Horn. Stackhouse had to be removed from the trade after the league had a problem with the appearance of a pre-arranged deal for Stackhouse to be bought out by the Nets, wait the mandatory 30 days, and then re-sign with Dallas.
Chris Boskin's new mission: to boost public broadcasting
Fixing public television may not be the most difficult task Chris Boskin has tackled. In the '70s, she transformed a free grocery-store circular into Bon Appetit magazine, giving glossy Gourmet its first-ever competition. In the '80s, Advertising Age named her one of the nation's "100 Outstanding Media People." In the '90s, she invested in a little Berkeley magazine called Yoga Journal - it has 1.2 million readers today. And in 2000, she joined the board of KQED, part of a team that has pulled the San Francisco public station out of debt. Now, as the newly elected chair of the nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Boskin ascends a powerful government perch at a critical moment. Public television is struggling to reinvent itself for a multi-channel world.
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