Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 2005:
The crisp-ness spirit.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports Mrs. Smith has won us over with the fresh taste of her new line of crisps. Available in apple, blueberry and strawberry, they go from freezer to table in 20 minutes. We tossed the blueberry version in the oven and let it bake during dinner. The ...
It's time to cook pork loin.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports Q: We are cooking dinner for at least 12 people and have 11.5-pound center-cut boneless pork loin. We'd like to eat around 2:30 p.m. We're using a meat probe for temperature but have no idea when to put the meat the in oven. How many minutes per ...
Pasta perfect.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: KNIGHT RIDDER COMBINE PRECOOKED ravioli, sliced black olives, roasted red peppers and fresh basil with ...
Berry good.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Fragrant strawberries generally taste better. And check the bottom of a strawberry basket before purchasing; the prettiest ones are often placed on top, and there may be underripe or spoiled berries ...
Wines Under $10.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Colosi $9.99 Dry White Wine Italy 2003 THIS pleasant table wine from Sicily falls into the food-friendly world between pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc. It is light and more floral than ...
World sweet.(Food Source)(Recipe)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: KATHLEEN PURVIS Knight Ridder Go in your kitchen and look at the sugar. White sand, white powder or brown clumps: White sugar, confectioners' sugar, brown sugar. What else is there? Look farther. Leave your kitchen, go into international ...
French fallacies.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: SALLY SQUIRES Washington Post The latest diet book to climb the bestseller lists is written not by a physician, nutrition researcher or registered dietitian, but by the CEO of a champagne company. ``French Women Don't Get Fat'' (Knopf) is aimed at those who have slipped ...
7-Day Menu Planner.(Food Source)(Recipe)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Susan Nicholson United Press Syndicate SUNDAY (Family) Mark family day with a feast of ORANGE-GLAZED PORK LOIN (see recipe). Buy MASHED SWEET POTATOES (refrigerated) to go alongside. Delicious FROSTED CAULIFLOWER will convert any nonvegetable eater. Heat oven ...
Tips save you from sticky situations.(Food Source)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: KATHLEEN PURVIS Knight Ridder A few tips we learned in working with sugars: Hard sugars can be very hard. Don't put them straight in your food processor or you'll dull the blade. Put them in a sturdy plastic bag, such as a freezer bag, then beat them on a hard surface ...
Cable tiff puts sports fans in a squeeze play.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff Writer Sports disputes involving money otherwise known as "sports disputes" usually pit the millionaires (players) against the billionaires (owners). In the latest standoff between the many-tentacled cable giants Cablevision and Time ...
Graphically novel.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ROGER EBERT UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE If film noir was not a genre but a hard man on mean streets with a lost lovely in his heart and a gat in his gut, his nightmares would look like ``Sin City.'' The new movie by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller plays like a ...
Scene & Heard.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Fruit smugglers don't cry Hilary Swank has been fined $163 for bringing fruit into New Zealand, after getting thumbs down from judges in an appeal. Swank was issued notice of a fine for breaching New Zealand's strict quarantine laws when she failed to declare an apple ...
Drilling oil in Alaska is wrong way to go.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Recently some of our U.S. senators voted to drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. If oil was found in the Grand Canyon, I wonder if they would vote to drill there. How about drilling next to Old Faithful in Yellowstone, or maybe Yosemite? ...
Patients' rights surpass pharmacists' beliefs.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... I find it deplorable that a licensed pharmacist would refuse to do his or her duty to fill a prescription, regardless of what that prescription was for ("Remedy sought in drug conflict," March 28). Would these same pharmacists refuse to fill a prescription for Viagra as they would for ...
Homeless center wins grant, welcomes help.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Thank you for your March 19 article on area homelessness. Writer Mike Goodwin did an excellent job of conveying the challenges the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and local agencies have in collecting accurate data on the homeless. While the HUD count was ...
State needs to fund wetlands protection.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... I've had the privilege of meeting many of the New Yorkers working to protect New York's threatened wetlands: the central New York hunter who wants to protect a shrinking habitat; the Buffalo area homeowner who faces constant flooding because of wetlands destruction; the Bronx resident who ...
Residents get great care at Our Lady of Hope.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... A friend of mine asked me after our morning run if I was disappointed in the care my parents are receiving in their current residence. The question surprised me until I arrived home and read the front-page article, "New nursing home data allows for comparison," in the March 24 Times Union ...
Addictions put burden on the health care system.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2005 ... I have to write in response to recent letters on Medicaid from state Health Commissioner Antonia Novello and Karen Schimke, president of the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy. The commissioner has the typical political answer to solve a problem by either increasing taxes ...
HBO renews `Deadwood'.(TV & Radio)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Associated Press The hard-edged Western series "Deadwood" will be back for a third season. The critically acclaimed series' renewal was announced by HBO on Wednesday just weeks after it began its second season on the premium cable channel. "Deadwood," marked ...
Ballston finishing work on expansion.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: LEIGH HORNBECK Staff Writer BALLSTON - The Town Hall expansion that voters approved by only one vote a year and half ago is nearing completion. Hallways are painted with "brick red," "coral," "livable green" and "artichoke" to pick up the colors in the ...
The Charts.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... 1. "Guess Who" 2. "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" 3. "The Ring Two" 4. "Robots" 5. "The Pacifier" (From Exhibitor Relations Co.) TOP SINGLES 1. "Candy Shop," 50 Cent 2. "Boulevard of ...
Fresh Tracks.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... COUNTRY "Songs About Me." Trace Adkins. (Capitol): No question about it, Adkins spells out what he's all about in the chart-climbing title song - "country music mixed with a little rock and a little blues" - and he delivers repeatedly. "Songs About Me" is a heavily ...
LIVING WILL MAKES DESIRES CLEAR TO FAMILIES.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Ellen Goodman BOSTON - What now will be the legacy of Terri Schiavo? A country as polarized as her husband and parents, who cannot even agree on the interment of her body? A Congress so craven that it passes a law turning every such case into every such ...
Rule change that's more than pocket change.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: DANIELLE T. FURFARO Staff Writer SAND LAKE - Thanks in part to an accounting change, residents within the Averill Park School District could be facing a 15.3 percent tax hike this year, school officials said. School board officials are hoping for relief from ...
Prison health care is killing inmates.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MARY BETH PFEIFFER The deaths of 23 inmates in jails across New York - from Rikers Island to the Albany and Schenectady county lockups - demonstrate the unseen perils of getting sick in facilities where medical care is contracted to companies seeking to make a profit. ...
Terri Schiavo.(Main)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2005 ... The 15 years since Terri Schiavo suffered catastrophic brain damage were unspeakably cruel, not only to Mrs. Schiavo herself but also to those who loved and cared for her and fought so bitterly over what was best for her. Mrs. Schiavo's death Thursday at the age of just 41 was ...
SALES PITCHES PLUS RECORD HITS.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Gene Shalit Everyone loves a sale. Stores use any excuse. Holiday sales, post-holiday sales, pre-holiday sales, lost our lease, found our lease - and, of course, the "Everything Line is overdrawn Must Go" sale. They wish. Dave Rosenberg asks, "Is ...
ABC, Fox cast for pilots.(TV & Radio)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Zap2it.com Bonnie Somerville can stand the heat, so she's hopping into Fox's "Kitchen Confidential," while Maggie Lawson is left to pick at "Crumbs" for ABC, leading a busy round of casting buzz at the two networks. Somerville, a regular on the final season ...
Word Fest celebrates poetry.(Arts & Entertainment)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: JOSEPH DALTON Staff Writer In celebration of April's National Poetry Month, the Albany Poets consortium will present Albany Word Fest, a series of readings and other events running April 21-25. The festivities will take place at a variety of venues, mostly in the Center ...
REDEEMING CATHOLICISM IN EUROPE.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Andrew Greeley What is the Catholic Church to do about Europe? Indeed, what are all Christian churches to do about Europe? With the exception of a very few countries, religion seems moribund in Europe. The question of what to do is being asked urgently as the ...
Care for the planet needed.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: TOM TEEPEN These are shocking words. We would do well to listen to them: "Human actions are depleting Earth's natural capital, putting such strain on the environment that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for ...
Koppel leaving ABC when contract ends.(TV & Radio)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press NEW YORK - Ted Koppel, who has anchored ABC News' "Nightline" since its inception a quarter-century ago, said Thursday he will leave the network when his contract expires at the end of the year. His departure comes at a time of ...
Comedy tempers angst in `Upside'.(Life - Scene)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ROGER EBERT Universal Press Syndicate Joan Allen and Kevin Costner achieve something in "The Upside of Anger" that may have been harder than co-starring in "Macbeth." They create two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, with enough ...
Ailing US Airways wins court approval for deal.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved plans by a second regional airline to invest $125 million in US Airways, moving the carrier closer to obtaining the financing it needs to emerge from Chapter 11 protection. The court also extended until May 31 a ...
Microsoft files 117 suits over identity theft scams.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday filed 117 federal lawsuits against unnamed defendants, accusing them of a high-tech form of identity theft known as "phishing." The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, accuses the "John Doe" ...
Stocks end quarter on low note.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MEG RICHARDS Associated Press NEW YORK - Stocks sagged Thursday, ending a lackluster quarter in negative range as investors weighed rising U.S. incomes and consumer spending against lofty oil prices, which rose following an investment bank's suggestion that energy was in ...
Mohawk Paper-IP deal yields fine line, mills.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... COHOES - Cohoes-based Mohawk Paper Mills Inc. will pay about $65 million for several mills and the fine-paper business line of International Paper Co. International Paper, which first announced the sale in December, announced the price Thursday, after it said the deal was ...
Charles Schwab site of Social Security protest.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... ALBANY - More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the offices of Charles Schwab Corp. Thursday to protest what the group called the brokerage's support of President Bush's plan for privatizing Social Security. The group was organized by the Capital District Area Labor ...
Jewelry store reopens across from old location.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... ALBANY - Paul Truman Jewelers formally opened a new downtown storefront on Thursday, across North Pearl Street from its old location. The new store, at 71 N. Pearl St., has 1,445 square feet, up from 765 at the old 80 N. Pearl St. location, where the business had been for about ...
LOOKING BACK.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... On this date in 1905 April 1 - A horse dealer and a friend were exercising a horse in ...
Big burgers and bigger profits.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: JIM SUHR Associated Press ST. LOUIS - In the fast-food equivalent of a research-and-development department, Hardee's is trying to build a better - and perhaps more colossal - burger. The test kitchen on the top floor of a downtown office tower already has ...
Qwest accelerates MCI bidding war.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: SANDY SHORE Associated Press DENVER - Qwest Communications International Inc. boosted its offer for MCI Inc. to $8.94 billion Thursday, adding $500 million to its bid to wrest the long-distance phone company away from Verizon Communications Inc. The latest ...
GE forms China energy venture.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: CAROL WOLF Bloomberg News FAIRFIELD, Conn. - General Electric Co., the world's largest maker of energy turbines, formed a joint venture with Shanghai Xin Hua Control Technologies Co. to expand production in China of power plant control systems. GE Energy said ...
Tissue fraud case nears jury.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP - In the months leading up to the 2001 collapse of American Tissue Inc., the company's CEO possessed intimate knowledge of fraudulent schemes undertaken to save the failing operation from bankruptcy, a federal prosecutor ...
Incomes rise as hiring surges.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON - Americans' incomes, bolstered by strong gains in hiring, rose by 0.3 percent in February while consumer spending climbed at an even faster pace of 0.5 percent, the government reported Thursday. The Commerce ...
$5M grant to help train SuperPower workers.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: KEVIN HARLIN Business writer SCHENECTADY - The state Legislature has pledged $5 million to help Union College and Schenectady County Community College train the workers who could build Schenectady-based SuperPower Inc.'s next generation of superconducting wire. ...
Bruschi still visits Patriots daily.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Associated Press SMITHFIELD, R.I. - Six weeks after a stroke, linebacker Tedy Bruschi visits the New England Patriots' headquarters daily, coach Bill Belichick told a group at Bryant College. "He's there every day," Belichick said Wednesday night during a ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR.(Capital Region)(Calendar)
Apr 01, 2005 ... TODAY COMMUNITY First Friday Festivities WHERE: Various locations in downtown Ballston Spa WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. NOTES: Yoga class, art opening, tea brewing demonstration, store opening. COMMUNITY FARE Chicken barbecue WHERE: Verdoy ...
Bankruptcy petitions pick up speed.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: JOSHUA HURWIT Staff Writer ALBANY - Surging fuel prices, mounting credit card debt and concern over possible changes in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code made the first quarter one of the busiest ever for area bankruptcy attorneys. At U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Albany, ...
Capoccia denies knowledge of theft.(Business)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Business writer BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - After listening for nearly a month to testimony against him, disbarred Guilderland lawyer Andrew Capoccia took the stand in U.S. District Court Thursday to say he knew nothing about the theft of client money. ...
Webber to pay price for ignoring doctor.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia 76ers forward Chris Webber will miss seven to 10 days after spraining his left shoulder against the Phoenix Suns, the team said Thursday. Webber was injured Wednesday night in the first half of Phoenix's 116-87 win ...
Steroids inquiry seeks NFL input.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON - The same Congressional committee that conducted hearings into steroids in baseball has asked NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue for information about how football regulates the performance-enhancing substances. The Government Reform ...
KNOW IT ALL.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Q: Who played the detective on TV's "Peter Gunn"? A: Craig Stevens. The half-hour crime show aired for two years on NBC, from 1958 to 1960, then moved to ABC for one year. The show is probably best remembered for its driving theme song, composed by Henry Mancini. In ...
For some history, ask the teacher.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ROBERT LOPEZ Staff Writer BETHLEHEM - There used to be blackboards all around, Marie Wiedeman says, looking at the pictures on the walls of the little red schoolhouse. The desks and chairs were bolted to the wooden floor. And if the kids were good, they got to ring the ...
Verizon victor in trash-tax dispute.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MARK JOHNSON Associated Press ALBANY - The state's highest court ruled Thursday that a company whose property is not directly benefiting from a town service should not have to pay a tax for that service, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for the ...
Campus activists keep `1984' alive for today.(Main)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ELIZA STRICKLAND Columbia News Service NEW YORK - They demand surveillance cameras in every dorm room. A halt to casual sex, especially between homosexuals. And the immediate reporting of any political dissent to the Thought Police. It's high time the U.S ....
The best of times, the best of teams.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: MATT GRAVES Staff Writer ALBANY - The ghosts of glory days for the Albany River Rats have disappeared like so many melted sheets of ice at the former Knickerbocker Arena since that golden season a decade ago. All the tangible evidence that remains of that ...
Police defuse teen's bombing plot.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO - A 15-year-old boy with a strong interest in the Columbine school shootings has been arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up his high school and had assembled bomb-making materials, including gunpowder and fuses, authorities ...
Columbia faults professor after students complain.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... NEW YORK - Columbia University's Middle Eastern studies professors did not engage in large-scale intimidation of pro-Israel students, but one angry professor exceeded "commonly accepted bounds" of behavior in the classroom, a university report said Thursday. A five-member panel ...
Sullivan man accused of impersonating officer.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... ONEIDA - State Police say a 23-year-old unemployed volunteer firefighter pretended to be a police officer and pulled over as many as 60 women drivers over a five-year period, admonishing them for driving offenses and then letting them go. Troopers charged Thomas R. Leatz, of ...
Judge rejects bid to open FBI files on plane disaster.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to release more records from its investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island in 1996. Judge Michael A. Ponsor ruled Tuesday in favor of the FBI in a lawsuit filed by Graeme J ....
Appeals court declines to hear gay marriage case.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... ALBANY - The state's highest court Thursday declined to hear two cases contesting the state law that bars same-sex couples from getting married. The Court of Appeals ruled it does not have the jurisdiction to hear the cases before they first go to a lower appellate court. ...
$1.9B stadium clears hurdle.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: ERIN McCLAM Associated Press NEW YORK - A proposed $1.9 billion stadium along the Hudson River designed to lure the 2012 Olympics to New York City cleared its highest hurdle yet Thursday, winning the blessing of the state agency that owns the land and handing a major ...
Eagles compete for Junior B crown.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: Staff reports The Troy-based Hudson Valley Eagles are in Blaine, Minn., this weekend, where they are one of 12 teams competing in the Junior B Tier II National Hockey Championships. Round-robin play begins today at 2:30 p.m. against the Brewster Bulldogs, ...
Town scolded on e-mail probe.(Capital Region)
Apr 01, 2005 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff Writer COLONIE - An arbitrator said Colonie officials were "pushing the limits" when they used criminal subpoenas to link a paramedic to a series of critical e-mails that had been sent anonymously to Supervisor Mary Brizzell. The ...