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All right* r**trv*4 6 Maintain Solutions 7 Hearty male 9 8 Marks time 9 Rouse to action 10 Singer Sarah 11 Off the cuff 12 Passive protest 13 Geological periods 21 Word before bool or |ump 25 Officiate at tea 2 / To and 28 _ de foice 29 Alpine warble 3i Gardner of ‘Moyamtx)' 32 Unrefined 33 Chi dish 35 Sound properly 37 Charged particle 48 Full o‘ trees 56 Sean of 'The 38 Bom in France 50 Irritate Lord of the 40 Ran in the wash 51 Outing H ngs' 41 Nev neighbor 52 Comic-strip 57 Searches tor 44 Left on the orphan 60 For al time plate 53 Madonna f ole 61 Woodwinc 46 Jack or Patrick 55 Watered taboc 62 Blunders ST'UIDSEftHI'T 1 Jr = Healthly foods are affordable (almost) By Marilynn Marter Knight Ridder Newspapers You've decided to start eating more organically grown foods, especially fresh produce. Join the crowd. Sales of organics have been climb ing about 20 percent a year in the United States and 25 percent in Europe for the last decade, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2002 National Or ganic Program Report. That makes organics the fast est-growing segment in the food industry, the agency said. Bui aren't organics harder to find and a lot more ex pensive than conventional foods? Forget the I%()s image of ferreting out a few pale, wilted greens on a dusty health-foods-store shelf. To day, more than halt of the nation's organic-food sales come from supermarkets, including Whole Foods Markets' 153 U.S. stores, and mass retailers such as Super Target (which sells organic beef and chicken), Wal-Mart and Costco. Though nationwide sales topped $lO billion last year, organics still represented barely 2 percent of total food purchases. The USDA expects that share to triple, climbing past $3O billion, by 2<X)7. Yet the debate con tinues over whether organic foods are really better for health. Recently, we shopped at 10 markets in and around Nelly s two sides would play better as one By Tom Moon Knight Ridder Newspapers Throughout a four-year career that's rocketed straight upward, the inega-platinum-selling St. Louis rapper, Nelly, has dominated urban music with two distinct styles—hard-cranking, instantly infectious party an thems (most notably "Hot in Herre") and more tender introspections on the order of the current "My Place," whose hook is sung by Jaheim. On Sept. 14, Cornell Haynes, the smart business man, sets out to exploit the dual "dimensions" of his art more aggressively with the simultaneous release of two seriously hyped, full-length discs. "Sweat." Nelly’s allegedly "street" offering chronicles the world of a hip-hop star whose high-roll ing posse lives to "let a grand hang out." And right next to it on the CD rack there's "Suit," which invites listeners to relax, kick back, and experience the softer side of Nelly. On paper, the double dose is a stroke of demo graphic-savvy genius: "Sweat" caters to the largely male rowdy crowd; "Suit" appeals to the sizable pool of female hip-hop lovers who seek something mel lower than gangsta's tiresome gunplay and confronta tion. But in pop/hip-hop, circa 2004, more isn't necessar ily better. Separating things by tone and style, Nelly has created solid, but samey and long-winded docu ments reminiscent of R. Kelly's current double-disc set. Happy People/U Saved Me, 1 ' that only the most devoted of his core audience w ill devour cover to cover. The discs are less cohesive conceptual statements than strings of singles aimed at subsets of the Nelly con stituency. The tactic quickly reveals itself to be a trap: After six sensitivo tracks on "Suit," Nelly uncorks an ode to a car called "Woodgrain and Leather Wit a Hole." that suggests he s exhausted his lover man repertoire and is casting desperately for another lust object. It's the peril of outsized ambition: Moments of spar kling, sure-to-be-everywhere party music on "Sweat" (Universal, 3 out of four stars) sit next to dim exer cises that wouldn t have merited inclusion on a tightly edited, more diverse disc. Likewise, after a few rounds of the plush, bedroom chatter that defines "Suit (Uni versal, 2 1/2 stars), Nelly's empathetic rhymes over pitter-pattering rhythms seem forced, willfully soft. Had Nelly plucked the best of each, he'd have one relentless, 45-minute blast of hookcraft. Releasing twin discs was a miscalculation. Yet the (KRT)\ The Behrend Beacon | 7 if :\X :mJk' Philadelphia (both conventional and organic/natural foods stores, including supermarkets, co-ops and even a farm stand) to compare the selection and prices of their organic produce. On the plus side, we found supplies were good and quality excellent. And prices, while high, were rarely outrageous. There were even a few bargains. On the downside, finding what you want at the best price may take some searching. We compared prices for six of the most widely avail able types of organic produce (bell peppers, green seed less grapes, hearts of romaine, peaches, red potatoes, and tomatoes) at the five local stores with the most variety. Co-ops had some of the best prices. But co-ops' in ventories can be small and sell out quickly. And many require members to contribute some "sweat equity" to the enterprise. for the rest of us, the convenience at Whole Foods and other chains is probably worth the higher prices. We also made some price comparisons between Whole Foods and the other stores for larger imaginary market baskets of a wider variety of identical items. The selection and number of items for each compari son v ary, since no store surveyed stocked organic ver sions ol all ol the foods we looked for. trie \ local Whole Foods Cooperative is located at 1134 West 26th Street. sparks on each suggest that Nelly has hit stride. He's progressed tar from "Country Grammar," his nine million-selling 2900 debut that introduced the world to St. Louis' slurred r's ("everybody becomes em body) atul now sounds like a novelty record. These days, the 29-year-old exudes calm as a rapper, and in several spots, including "Suit's reflective "N Dey Say," built on Spandau Ballet's "True," strives to be the voice ol reason. Talking to a single mother raising two kids while her man is behind bars, he urges her to keep her head up: "Please don't despise and go against all broth ers. and have a hatred in your heart and take it out on another." More important, he's evolved into a highly efficient melody machine with an unerring sense of balance (between breathless raps and grabby song refrains, between harsh rhetoric and party music) and that rare ability, most recently displayed by Outkast, to gener ate catchphrases that hang around long after the song ends. "Sweat "offers a string of these in a row: the insinu ating chant Na-NaNa-Na'; the salacious, Neptunes produced Hap Your Wings"; an unexpectedly heart felt foray into consciousness reggae, "River Don't Runnn," that features Murphy Lee and Stephen Marley; and an addictive, wound-tight James Brown groove. Tilt Ya Head Back," that's the best thing Chris tina Aguilera has sung on in ages. Each of these tracks has its own message and at least several clever Nelly lines, but what makes them soar are the musical touches on the fringes, the slash ing horns that punctuate "Tilt Ya Head Back," the la menting, old-school harmony Ronald Isley brings to the Big Boi-produced "She Don't Know My Name," the highlight of "Suit." Some rappers treat these ear candy elements as afterthoughts. They’re Nelly's pri mary preoccupation, and a reason why even his light weight material (see "Suit’s" ode to foot fetishism, "Pretty Toes") is compelling: He's making grabby, accessible hip-hop for the masses. The tracks of "Sweat" and, to a lesser extent "Suit," are almost over loaded, roaring with sound and in constant motion in the over-the-top revue style of Outkast and Missy Elliott. It s hard not to be drawn into the relentless stomping grcxives and grinding backbeats. That energy, which steamrolls through both discs, is ultimately the best argument for a single-disc pack age. It turns out there isn’t all that much artistic dis tance between the club-going Nelly and the homebody Nelly. A carefully culled, and considerably shorter. Sweatsuit would have said much more than a "Sweat" and a "Suit."
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