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HOPPIN’ MAD
AT THE LIES HE’S
BEEN TOLD? Johnny Rabe, 12, stars on Broadway as Ralphie in A Christmas Story, the Musical!
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Is every snowfl ake unique? Are poinsettias poisonous? And do you really lose most of your heat through your head? Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children.
THE ISSUE
EVERY
KID SHOULD
READ (And Parents, Too)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012
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PARADEWalter Scott’s
P Michael Strahan
Q: Has Michael Strahan
settled into his role as
cohost on Live? —Susan
Helms, Blue Springs, Mo.
A: The former NFL defen-sive end, who started his run as Kelly Ripa’s permanent cohost on the morning talk show in September, says he
“feels more comfortable, but there’s defi nitely a lot of room for improvement.” As for predecessor Regis Philbin, Strahan says: “I haven’t had a chance to sit down with him, but I know he’s given me the stamp of approval. He built a great
Q: How can the stars of
the reality show Moon-
shiners participate in
illegal activity and not get
arrested? —Bo Ortiz, Okla.
A: The Discovery series (Wednesdays) about Appalachians who brew home made hooch has beensubject to debate. Last year, the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control issued a statement that said in part, “If illegal activity was actually taking place, the Virginia ABC Bureau of Law Enforce ment would have taken action”— casting doubt on exactly what is being shown onscreen. Moonshiners exe cutive producer Dolores Gavin chooses her words care-fully when discussing the show, calling it “an authentic portrayal” of the process. But she also stresses that “our moonshiners have been trained by their fathers and grandfathers to be
Q: Is it true Ian McKellen
almost didn’t reprise his
role as Gandalf in The
Hobbit? —M. Greer, Las Vegas
A: After playing the wizard in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, Ian McKellen, 73, didn’t exactly jump at the chance to don the gray beard and robe again in The Hobbit, now in theaters. “It was a big time commit-ment, and it would keep me from other work,” McKellen says. “But they divided [the shooting] up so that I could do a play, and I felt happy about that. The clincher was that I didn’t really want any-body else to play Gandalf. It’s been a big part of my life for more than 10 years.”
Q: What are the require-
ments for being a Rock-
ette? —Liz H., Dunbar, W.Va.
A: Each member of the troupe must be at least 18, between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10½, and profi cient in ballet, tap, and jazz. They rehearse six hours a day, six days a week to prepare for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which is pay-ing tribute this season to the Rockettes’ 85 years of performing in New York City. The Big Apple became the high-kicking dancers’ home after a talent scout saw the troupe in St. Louis in 1925.
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legacy; I could never replace him.” Strahan, 41, has also lent his star power to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign (stjude.org), which raises funds for the children’s research hospital.
2 • DECEMBER 16, 2012
WALTER SCOTT ASKS …
DEMI LOVATOThe X Factor judge, 20, gears up for the season � nale of the Fox reality singing competition, Dec. 20.
You mentored the young adults
category this season. How
was that experience?
Fun and exciting, but
really stressful. I was
surprised at how
emotionally invested
I became. It hurts to
see them go, espe-
cially when I know
their potential.
Describe your
fellow judges in
a few words.
Britney Spears is sweet
and humble; L. A. Reid
is hilarious and smart;
and Simon Cowell is
annoying and old!
Did you feel intimi-
dated as the youngest
judge? Not at all. It’s an
honor to sit next to them
because they’re legends,
but I’m a southern girl with a big
mouth, and I speak my mind!
You’re working on your fourth
album. What can fans expect?
I’ve got a lot of songs written,
and it will be released next year.
I’ll be singing about some stuff
that I haven’t talked about before.
I just want to inspire people.
You’ve spoken candidly
about your past strug-
gles with eating disor-
ders and self-harm.
Do you see yourself
as a role model for
others dealing with
those problems?
Absolutely. I have no
secrets about what
I’ve been through.
The fact that people
still support me after
all the mistakes I’ve
made is incredible. I feel
like a role model because
I’ve spoken out about it,
and I’m just being real.
Send questions to [email protected] or P.O. Box 5001,
Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.
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mouth, and I speak my mind!
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album. What can fans expect?
I’vI e got a lot of songs written,
and it will be released next year.
I’ll be singing about some stuff
that I haven’t talked abouttttttut before.
I just want to inspire people.
You’ve spoken candidly
about your past strug-
gles with eating disor-
ders and self-harm.
Do you see yourself
as a rroleo model for
others dealing with
those problems?
Absolutely. I have no
secrets about what
I’ve been through.
The fact that people
still support me after
all the mistakes I’ve
made is incredible. I feel
like a role model because
I’ve spoken out about it,
and I’m just being real.
Send questions to [email protected] or P.O. Box 5001, m
Grand Central Station,New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.
nimble and slip around the laws. These guys are some of the smartest people you’ll ever fi nd.”
P Ian McKellen
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“STAY AWAY
FROM THE
POINSETTIA!
THE LEAVES
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The truth is, it’s probably safer to eat an entire po� ed poinse� ia than Grandma’s fruit-cake. Unlike other plants in its genus, the poinset-tia isn’t dangerously toxic. Poison control centers say you’d have to gorge on 600 leaves to get a meaningful dose of irritating compounds, and even then the symp-toms would be no worse than a bellyache. (Prob-ably not much di� erent from the belly ache you’d get by eating 600 leaves of anything.)
No swimming right after lunch! Sugar will make you hyper! How many of these parental proclamations are actually true? In his new book, Because I Said So, PARADE’s trivia columnist (and ex-Jeopardy! champ), Ken Jennings, separates fact from fi ction.
Cover and inside photographs by Peter Yang
I was sitting in my parents’ kitchen not long ago when my son Dylan came running around the corner with a Tootsie Pop clamped in his mouth.
“Whoa, slow down!” I said. “What if you tripped and fell on your face? The lollipop stick would get jammed right through the roof of your mouth.”
Dylan’s eyes got wide. “Could that really happen?”I had no idea.“Of course!” I told him. “Go sit down until you’re done.” I found my mom and asked her to back me up: “It’s true
about lollipop sticks and horrifi c puncture wounds, right?”“That’s what Grandma used to tell us,” she said. “I
think it also happens in a Chaim Potok novel.”I was horrifi ed. A fact I’d passed along to my trusting
child turned out to be thirdhand rumor confi rmed only by a novelist?*
That’s the dirty secret of parenting: It’s a big game of Telephone, stretching back through the centuries and delivering garbled, though well-intentioned, medieval bromides to the present. Possible misinformation like the lollipop story never gets corrected; it just goes into hiber-nation for a few decades and then jumps out to snare a new generation, like a 17-year cicada.
So I decided it was time to shine the cold, hard light of truth onto parental folklore. It would be too ambitious to attempt to stamp out all the lies we tell children. There are safety lies (“This car won’t run unless your seat belts are on”) and sympathy lies (“We sent your hamster to live on a farm”) and keep-your-kids-out-of-therapy lies (“We love you both exactly the same!”). But the accidental lies are easier to tackle. Here, I’ve collected 15 nagging Mom- and Dad-isms we all grew up with, and presented the scientific evidence—or lack thereof—behind them.
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*A study from Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital found that most puncture wounds in the mouth healed by themselves—and less than 3 percent of those injuries were caused by lollipops. The hospital saw just one lollipop case every two years, on average. Apparently, enjoying one on the go isn’t so reckless after all.
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DECEMBER 16, 2012 • 7
“NO SWIMMING FOR AN HOUR AFTER LUNCH. YOU’LL CRAMP UP.”
Perhaps no piece of dubious
parental wisdom has ever
been followed so precisely. It
is true that when we eat, our
bodies divert blood to the
stomach to aid in digestion,
but, as you may have noticed,
that doesn’t immobilize your
arms and legs. In fact, long-
distance swimmers are rou-
tinely fed in the middle of
races to make sure they stay
nourished and hydrated.
The only dangerous lunch for
swimmers would be one that
included a martini or two. So
let’s get this straight, moms
and dads: Popsicles by the
pool: fi ne. Peach vodka Pop-
sicles: maybe less so.
“WHEN YOU START SHAVING, THE HAIR WILL GROW IN THICKER.”
To a 12-year-old
boy, it’s the best possible
news. To a tween girl, it’s a
cautionary tale. But in both
cases, the advice is pretty silly.
Hair follicles are located a
millimeter or two below the
surface of the skin; anything
that goes on up above has no
effect on the growth of hair.
Why has the myth persisted,
then? Most dermatologists
blame the texture difference
between unshaved and
shaved hair. Longer hairs
bend and fl ow better than
little stubbly ones. Hair also
tends to taper naturally, so
when it’s freshly shaved, the
blunter ends may make it feel
temporarily coarser.
OUR MODEL, Johnny Rabe, 12, hails from the
Chicago area and is mak-ing his Broadway debut
as Ralphie in A Christmas
Story, The Musical! (playing through Dec. 30). “It’s
cool to be playing such an iconic character,” Rabe
has said. “I mean, a lot of people know Ralphie. They know the gun, the glasses,
the cheesy smile, the daydreaming.”
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“DON’T EAT
SNOW—
IT’LL MAKE
YOU SICK!”
Findings published
in Science in 2008 revealed that some snow� akes form around a “seed” of bacteria such as Pseudomonas syringae—which led to “Why snow might be killing your kid!” teasers in newscasts.But Pseudomonas syringae causes a fatal disease in beans and tomatoes, not peo-ple. And the human stomach is acidic enough to kill bacteria in snow. However, there are worse things in the air—such as sulfates, nitrates, even lead—and snow might contain any of them. Catching � akes on your tongue is no big deal, but any kid put-ting away buckets of the white stu� may want to ease up.
Council recommended “one milliliter of water for each calorie of food.” A 1,900- calorie diet would indeed work out to about 64 ounces of water a day. But everyone seems to have forgotten the next sentence: “Most of this quantity is contained in pre-pared foods.” That’s right, Mrs. Brown: Most of our water gets to us in non-water form. In fact, a National Institutes of Health doctor told the Los
Angeles Times that a healthy adult in a temperate climate could replace his body’s daily water loss with food alone!
So what’s the right amount to drink? Whatever your thirst demands. And it doesn’t have to be water: The Center for Nutrition found that even supposedly “diuretic” bever-ages (like coffee, tea, and soda) provide almost all the hydration that water does.
“IT’S TOO
DARK IN
HERE.
YOU’LL
HURT YOUR
EYES.”
Moms and dads love to
walk around turning on lights when kids are reading. But there’s no direct evidence linking reading in the dark to eye damage. When light is dim, it takes more effort for the eye to focus, and your eyes might get dry or achy or your vision might get blurry sooner. But a few minutes’ rest will clear that right up.
“YOU ARE A
SPECIAL LITTLE
SNOWFLAKE.”
While the child in question may well
be unique, the crystalline lattices that fall from the sky sure aren’t. This adage dates back to Wilson Bentley, a turn-of-the-century Vermont man who was so fascinated by snowfl akes that he spent his life perfecting a process to photograph them. In a series of journal articles, Bentley argued that no two fl akes were alike.
At a molecular level, of course, he was right. There are something like a sextil-lion molecules of water in one snowfl ake, and the arrangement of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes within them will never be dupli-cated. But at a more mean-ingful level—that of micro-
scopic inspection—Bentley was wrong. The simplest snowfl ake shapes are likely repeated all the time.
“YOU NEED
HYDROGEN
PEROXIDE
ON THAT.”
Okay, I’ll admit that hydrogen peroxide looks pretty cool when it foams like crazy. What you’re seeing is cells dying, and the sting you feel is a sign that tissue is being damaged. In fact, the CDC advises against putting hydrogen peroxide on your skin. It’s not even a particu-larly good antiseptic. An anti-biotic ointment like Neosporin is a better choice, but doctors say the fi rst thing to do is fl ush the wound with a close cousin of hydrogen peroxide: dihydrogen monoxide, which is excellent at preventing infection and scarring. You probably know it as water.
“TAKE OFF THE
BAND-AID TO
LET YOUR CUT
AIR OUT.”
“Airing out” is classic Dr. Mom advice. But it has been outdated since 1962, when a doctor named George Winter compared open-air to covered wound healing on young pigs. Skin cells regrew about twice as fast on the covered wounds, which stayed moist and didn't scab. You don’t need anything fancy to keep scrapes hydrated. Vaseline will do the trick.
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“DRINK
EIGHT
8-OUNCE
GLASSES OF
WATER A
DAY.”
This was called the “8x8
rule” when I heard about it from my seventh grade home ec teacher, Mrs. Brown. Not milk; couldn’t be juice; had to be water. I pro-tested that since all beverages were mostly water, surely they would count? “No!”
In 2002, a kidney specialist named Heinz Valtin, M.D., concluded this rule was an accident. Back in the 1940s, the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research
“DON’T CROSS YOUR EYES—THEY’LL GET
STUCK LIKE THAT!”
People with accommodative esotropia can focus clearly on nearby objects only by slightly crossing one eye, a re� ex that leads to a cross-eyed condition. But it’s caused by a congenital lens defect, not by making funny faces. This cockeyed myth is yet another case of parents saying “That’s dangerous!” when what they really mean is “Why on earth are you doing that?”
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WATCH FOR KEN JENNINGS’S
trivia column, Kennections, in future issues, or play now at Parade.com/ken
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“NO SODA! THE SUGAR MAKES YOU HYPER.”
“I can hear your heart racing from here,” observes Calvin’s pet tiger, Hobbes, as the comic strip menace dives into a second bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. It’s the myth of the “sugar high”—the idea that candy, sodas, and sugary cereals cause kids to bounce off the walls like little SuperBalls. Dozens of recent studies, however, have soured doc-tors on the possible linkage. Sugar doesn’t really wind kids up, they now believe—it’s just that many of the occasions on which kids eat lots of sugar, like birthday parties and holidays, tend to be chaotic anyway.
Cutting down on sugar is great for kids’ teeth and weight, of course. It just won’t help them sit still on Grandma’s plastic-covered couch. Some research has even found that sugar may have a calming effect on younger kids.
“DON’T WAKE A SLEEP-WALKER.”
This is good
advice, but not for the reasons you might think. For centuries, we’ve been warned that waking a sleepwalker could lead to a heart attack, brain damage, or worse. In reality, a sleepwalker who wakes suddenly is likely to be dis-oriented and distressed by her unfamiliar surround-ings. That’s as serious as it gets. Nevertheless, doctors recommend gently leading the sleepwalker back to bed rather than disrupting her slumber and risking a pos-sible sock in the jaw.
“YOU’RE NOT FAT. YOU’RE JUST BIG-BONED.”
Skeletal weight obviously varies between people. A future archaeologist wouldn’t
have trouble telling, say, Shaquille O’Neal’s skeleton from Kristi Yamaguchi’s. But leaving height aside, the differences between the big-boned and small-boned are surprisingly, well, slim.
The medical rule of thumb is that having an unusually large or small frame can make a 10 per-cent difference in your healthy weight range. How to calculate whether your
genetic heritage entitles you to that extra 10 percent? If you’re okay with a ballpark estimate, wrap the thumb and middle fi nger of one hand around your opposite wrist. If they touch, more or less, your frame size is average. If they overlap, you’re an elfi n little waif. If they don’t meet, your bones are offi cially “husky” or “stocky” or whatever Mom’s favorite euphemism was.
But, again, the telltale wrist refers only to that 10 percent variance. The vast majority of overweight kids can blame their eating hab-its, not their skeletons.
“IF YOU PICK UP A BABY BIRD, ITS MOMMY WILL
REJECT IT.”
A baby bird with a whiff of human scent on it, the story goes, will be abandoned by its mother. But animal mothers are so protective of their off-spring that no stink would likely keep them from caring for their young. And most birds’ sense of smell is as weak as their maternal instinct is strong.
Baby birds without feath-ers are nestlings, and you should do your best to return them to their nest. But a young bird with feathers fl ap-ping around on the ground is a fl edgling learning to fl y. Its parents are probably nearby, watching over the little guy. You’ll likely do more harm than good if you swoop in to help out—but it won’t be due to your B.O.
From Because I Said So: The
Truth Behind the Myths, Tales,
and Warnings Every Genera-
tion Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings. Copyright © 2012 by Ken Jennings. Reprinted with permission by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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“MOST OF YOUR BODY HEAT
ESCAPES THROUGH YOUR HEAD!”
This old saw comes from experi-ments done in the 1950s in which soldiers were sent into subzero temps wearing survival suits—and no hats. Shockingly, they
lost a lot of heat through their heads! As hypothermia expert Daniel Sessler, M.D., explained to the New York
Times, you’d get the same results if any body part were exposed. Our faces and necks are � ve times more sensi-tive to temperature, so those areas may feel particularly vulnerable. But you’d lose just as much heat or more if you put on a hat and le� , say, your le� leg bare.
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You wrote that you can’t gain more than the weight of the food you eat. But a pound has 3,500 calories, and a gram of pure fat has 9 calories. With 454 grams in a pound, this means that if you ate a pound of fat, you would consume 4,086 calo-ries. So you would gain more than a pound, correct?
—Ann B., Escondido, Calif.
A pound of human body fat has only about 3,500 calories because it also contains water, which adds to its weight but not its calories. Technically speak-ing, if you found a way to consume a pound of pure fat, you would gain more than a pound, counting the water. However, virtually no food on the market is 100 percent fat—even butter also has water. At roughly 80 percent fat, a pound of butter contains about 3,200 calories.
Ask MarilynBy Marilyn vos Savant
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HealthyStay
1You’re attending a
neighborhood pot-
luck party. Which hors
d’oeuvre staple is your
best bet?
(a) A handful of nuts
(b) Pigs in a blanket
(c) Cheese and crackers
Answer: (a). If your main
concern is glucose con-
trol, you need to watch out
for carbohydrates, which
can cause a big spike in
blood sugar. Nuts are
relatively low in carbs
and contain healthy fats
and protein. Cheese is
your second-best choice,
but skip the high-carb
accompaniments like
crackers or jam.
2You’re meeting
friends for holiday
cocktails. Which beverage
will least affect your blood
glucose level?
(a) Beer
(b) Wine
(c) A gin and tonic
Answer: (b). Though beer
and tonic water may not
taste particularly sweet,
both are high in carbo-
hydrates compared to dry
(non-sweet) wines. But
before you indulge, it’s
important to talk to your
doctor, since alcohol
and diabetes can be a
dangerous mix. Drinking
can camoufl age the symp-
toms of low blood sugar,
(b) After the party
(c) Both
Answer: (c). Yes, it’s a pain
to drag your glucometer to
a party, but it’s the only way
to tell whether your blood
glucose is in a safe range.
Try to test shortly before
eating and again two hours
afterward, says the Ameri-
can Diabetes Association. —Catherine Price
decrease your willpower to
make smart food choices,
and impair your liver’s
ability to regulate your
blood glucose level. So if
you do drink, know your
limit and stick to it.
3Your offi ce holiday
party is tonight. The
best time to test your
blood glucose is:
(a) Before the party
Have Yourself a Healthy
Li� le ChristmasFor the nearly 26 million Americans with
diabetes, making the right choices at the holiday
bu� et is a serious ma� er. As party season gets
under way, test your knowledge with our short quiz.
I recently read that superca� einated energy drinks may be
linked to several deaths. Should I be worried about how
much ca� eine I—or my kids—consume?
Most adults can tolerate 300 to 500
milligrams of ca� eine (a six-to-eight-ounce
cup of coffee can contain 95 to 200 milligrams). Consume more than 600 milligrams and you may experience
nausea, ji� eriness, or a rapid heartbeat;
extremely high intake can lead to a danger-
ous spike in blood pressure. Kids should
avoid signi� cant amounts of ca� eine, whether in sodas or
energy drinks. We aren’t sure of the
long-term e� ects of ca� eine on growing
bodies, plus it can interfere with sleep—
and most kids need more shut-eye, not
less. —Andrea N. Giancoli, R.D., spokesperson
for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
NUMBER OF
CALORIES
THE AVERAGE
AMERICAN
ADULT
CONSUMES
EACH DAY
FROM
ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES Source: National
Center for Health Statistics
NUMBER OF
ADDITIONAL
PRIMARY CARE
DOCTORS
THAT WILL BE
NEEDED IN
THE U.S. BY THE
YEAR 2025 Source: Annals
of Family Medicine
HOUSE CALL
10052,000
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TableAround the
1. PEPPERMINT WHITE
CHOCOLATE BARKMelt 12 oz chopped white
chocolate in microwave,
stirring often. Add 1 Tbsp
melted shortening and an
additional 4 oz chopped
white chocolate. Stir. Spread
on a parchment-lined bak-
ing sheet; top with coarsely
chopped peppermint
candies. When hardened,
break into pieces.
2. CHOCOLATE PEANUT
CRUNCHIES Melt 1 cup milk chocolate
chips. Stir in 2½ cups
dried chow mein noodles.
Drop from a tablespoon
onto an oiled baking sheet
and sprinkle with coarsely
chopped peanuts or almonds.
Let cool.
3. FUDGY TRUFFLESSimmer 1 cup cream and
¼ cup butter; stir until smooth.
Pour over 1 lb chopped
semisweet chocolate;
stir until chocolate is melted
and smooth. Add 1½ tsp
vanilla extract. Chill for 1 hour.
Roll into small balls. Coat
with crushed candy canes.
4. PEANUT CHOCOLATE BARKMelt 12 oz fi nely chopped
milk chocolate in micro-
wave, stirring occasionally. Add 1 Tbsp melted shorten-ing and 4 oz chopped semi-sweet chocolate . Spread on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle with ¹∕³ cup raisins and ²∕³ cup salted roasted peanuts. After chocolate hardens, break into pieces.
5. SPICY PUMPKIN
SEED BONBONSIn a heavy skillet, combine 1 cup sugar, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. Cook over medium, con-stantly swirling pan, for 6 minutes or until dark gold. Remove from heat and add 1 Tbsp butter, ½ tsp cin-namon, and 1½ lb toasted, hulled pumpkin seeds. Form into rounds with a scoop; place on an oiled, parchment-lined baking sheet to set.
6. PEPPERMINT WHITE
CHOCOLATE FUDGELine a 9-by-13-inch pan with foil. In a saucepan, simmer ¼ cup softened butter, 4 cups mini marshmallows, 1 cup heavy cream, 2 cups sugar, and ¹/8 tsp salt. When smooth, stir in 3 cups white chocolate chips and 1 tsp pepper mint extract. Blend well. Spread in pan. Coat with colored sprinkles. Cool; cut into squares (if you like, cut squares in half to make triangles). As a variation, substitute vanilla for peppermint extract.
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PHILADELPHIA INDULGENCE Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake
Makes 16 servings:
28 LORNA DOONE ShortbreadCookies, � nely crushed (about 1¾ cups)
¾ cup plus 1 Tbsp. sugar, divided
¼ cup butter, melted
5 oz. BAKER’S White Chocolate, divided
3 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIACream Cheese, softened
2 tsp. vanilla, divided
3 eggs
1 tub (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA INDULGENCE Milk Chocolate
2 cups COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
1 cup fresh raspberries
like the holidayspheels
HEAT oven to 325°F.
Mix cookie crumbs,
1 Tbsp. sugar and butter;
press onto bottom of
9-inch springform pan.
Bake 10 min.
MELT 4 oz. white
chocolate as directed
on package. Beat plain
PHILADELPHIA Cream
Cheese, remaining sugar
and vanilla with mixer
until blended. Add
melted white chocolate;
mix well. Add eggs, 1 at
a time, mixing on low
speed after each just until
blended. Pour over crust.
BAKE 50 to 55 min. or
until center is almost set.
Run knife around rim
of pan to loosen cake;
cool before removing
rim. Refrigerate 4 hours.
Meanwhile, shave
remaining white
chocolate into curls.
SPOON PHILADELPHIA
INDULGENCE into
medium bowl; stir until
creamy. Add COOL
WHIP; whisk until
blended. Spread over
cheesecake. Garnish
with white chocolate
curls and raspberries.
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Every TV show you watch has a world of sound
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Our fi rst one-piece solution for your TV.
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reproduces sound that’s wider than the screen, all
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