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guide Monday FarnfyUfe Wednesday Thursday Fridy Neighbors ID Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Thursday, January 9, 2003 www.publicopiniononline.com Jot and Careen and Fitness Cmr Editor David N. Dunklei 2G2-47G4, ddunldechambers.gannett.coni 3 kPTI Motives are keys to losing weight Arsenio relishes his new TV role LD ibraoi main library, patrons are not allowed to bring food and drink into the library, but there's a full-service restaurant and a coffee nook in the building. Moreover, college and university libraries, aware of the study-all-night habits of many students, have long allowed them to bring covered drinks and even snacks into- study carrels. "People want to curl up with a book and read and also have a cup of coffee," Hayden says. "That's what people expect." In the Arlington library, which has been java-friendly for about a year, it's not just coffee drinkers who are welcome; kids with sodas and mothers with children with sippy cups also can come in.

Robinson says there have been no problems and no spills. "Most of the people who come into the library find it innovative, charming, funky and fun." The Baltimore library system, known as the Enoch Pratt Free Library, is building a new annex that will have a cybercafe; a new branch in the southeast section of the city also will have a coffee cafe. Hayden says surveys of the neighborhood found that a cafe was top on the list of things people wanted to see in the new branch along with a copy center, which also will be included. "We couldn't accommodate the laundromat," Hayden says with a laughs. Of course, don't even "think "about bringing food or drink under the soaring dome of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

In fact, in many parts of "America's Library," such as the rare book and manuscript sections, you can't even bring in a pen: Pencils only. Some allow joe, snacks between the stacks By MARIA PUENTE USA TODAY Ah, the American public library. Few places conjure up such warm and pleasant memories as a clean, well-lighted place to read, the silence broken only by whispers and the rustling of pages, the air redolent of the smell of brewing coffee. Oops. That's the "bookstore." Or is it? These days more public libraries are beginning to look like a bustling Borders or Barnes Noble, with espresso machines steaming away in a corner cafe and people munching on bagels as they peruse the morning paper.

"We're java-friendly!" reads the sign at the entrance of a library in Arlington, located in a storefront in an urban neighborhood crowded with restaurants, bars, coffee shops and theaters. "People are surprised that they're encouraged to do this because it's such a change from traditional library rules," says Cathy Robinson, manager of the library, which is housed in the storefront while awaiting completion of a new building in 2005. "It's just a continuation of the whole coffee-shop culture." What a change from the days when Marian the Librarian barred the door of the local Carnegie if you showed up with even so much as a candy bar. And that's still By BILL KEVENEY USA TODAY Arsenio Hall is new to "Star Search," but he has plenty of experience mtroduting rising tal- ent Hall, who hosts CBS live edition of the venerable talent hunt, had to find up-and-coming performers when he started his late- night talk show in 1989, because Johnny Carson was getting all the superstars. "I had to make some stars.

Part of the process was going to people like Babyface and (Sony Musk chief) Tommy Mottola. He brought me Mariah (Carey)," Hall says. Besides Carey, Hall says he gave an early national forum to a number of performers who became household names, including TLC," Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men. Hall also benefited from the earner edition of "Star Search," as then-host and longtime Carson sidekick Ed McMahon alerted him to performers such as Usher, who weren't yet at the star level required by "The Tonight Show," "since he knew he wasn't being unfaithful to Johnny." "Live is exciting," he says of the format. It makes you have to step up." Hall had been pitching his own mix of talent showTleal World," when CBS offered the hosting job.

The biggest difference between the shows, he notes archly: "I would have owned that other project." Besides "Star Search," he has been working on a VH1 special, planned for February, that will look back at the music that made his late-night show a hip destination. The comic, 47, was "bitten by the stand-up bug" and has been performing over the past year. Tm doing a little bit of everything. I really love my life right now. For me, for a long time, I had everything but balance," he says, referring to the heavy demands of a daily talk show.

But everything doesnt include marriage. "Marriage is like a really awful business deal. It's like you and I become partners and if it fails, I take all your money," he says. The Cleveland native says hell be able to empathize with the performers, remembering his own talent-show performances. He wont critique their performances leaving that to the judges, including Ben Stein, Naomi Judd, Carol Leifer and tonight's guest, Chaka Khan.

(Viewers of the live East Coast broadcast, who have 50 of the vote, will cast ballots via the Internet right after the performances, with decisions announced after the commercial break.) Although he plans to be supportive, Hall wants to keep his distance, to avoid any favoritism. Td like not to know them," he says, before pausing and laughing. "Except for the and drink inside. But Larra Clark, spokeswoman for the association, says an informal survey on a library group e-mail list found that a growing number report they either have cafes or are considering them. Others say they allow people to bring covered drinks inside.

And in a few cases, such as the Broward County, the Baltimore public library system and incoming president of the American Library Association, which has 64,000 members, mostly librarians. There are no official statistics that show how many of the nation's 9,074 public library systems (a total of 16,298 buildings) have cafes or allow patrons to bring food TBS movie shows JFK Jr.V inner By NANCI HELLMICH USA TODAY Controlling your weight is a numbers game. At least that's the way Sha-linee Bloom, 43, of Westminster, figures it. She begins every week by writing the number 600 four times on the Sunday column of her day planner. The message to herself is simple: Four days that week she needs to burn 600 calories with exercise.

To do that, she usually jogs six miles at a time until she crosses off all the numbers. And when she's trying to drop extra weight, she keeps a food diary that includes calorie counts. These are two reasons for Bloom's weight maintenance success. She once weighed 185 pounds, then she dieted and exercised for more than a year and a half and got down to 110. She decided that was too low and went back up to 118, where she is today.

An electrical engineer, Bloom is now earning an MBA. Several years ago, she educated herself about weight loss. In 1994, she was lugging around 185 pounds on her 5-foot-5 frame. Bloom, who was born in India, blamed her weight gain on a combination of genetics, aging and the high-fat fast food that's so ubiquitous in the United States. She says she was never obsessed with her weight.

But she was concerned that her blood pressure was getting too high and that she might need medication to control it. So she tackled her weight instead. She read everything she could about healthy eating, and she decided to base her eating plan on the government's food guide pyramid. She began carefully constructing her diet eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, cutting way back on sugars, sweets and processed foods and eating complex carbohydrates like whole grain bread. She knows she's stricter about her diet than most people, but she's comfortable with it, and as a reward for keeping it, she treats herself once a week to a meal that's unrestricted.

She might have a steak with fries or Thai food. Her exercise program began very slowly. At first, she couldn't even jog 10 steps, she says. "I couldn't run; I couldn't even walk very far." Gradually, she built up her endurance. "I would try to walk a little faster and a little more every day." Eventually, she began jogging.

On top of that, she now does weight training for her upper body at both the gym and her home. Exercise takes discipline, and it's easy to blow off, she says. "There are times when I find it a drag to get started, but then when I am going I wonder why I had to give it a second thought." Typical day's menu Shalinee Bloom eats several snacks during her day. Morning snack: Cup of black tea with one-third cup of skim milk. Second morning snack: Two slices of whole-wheat bread with one teaspoon of fruit jelly, cup of black tea with one-third cup of skim milk.

Noon snack: Peeled baby carrot sticks (about 10), handful of pecans (about 8). Early afternoon snack: Cup of steamed spinach with cup of fat-free, homemade yogurt as dressing. One serving of fresh fruit, usually a banana or apple. Late afternoon snack: One serving of fruit, usually blueberries or a banana Evening snack: Handful of pecans, cup of black tea with one-third cup of skim milk. Early evening snack: One to two servings of cooked, well-spiced lentils, two slices of whole-wheat bread, green beans and one cup of fat-free yogurt.

Another possible snack if still hungry: A can of com or lentils with two slices of fat-free whole-wheat bread turmoil Kennedy rescuing her after Hannah's alleged beating by an ex-boyfriend, singer Jackson Browne. "The family certainly didn't get in touch with us. They didn't do anything to try to stop it," executive producer Bonnie Raskin said. "I'm so confident in the way we told our story that I would have been delighted to have sent anyone who requested it a copy of the script. It presents John and the family in a very realistic light." Raskin said besides Andersen's book, at least two sources were used to document events transpiring the way they are shown.

"It's not a valentine," she said. "At the same time, it's not a tabloid expose. It's a very rounded picture of a man and what shaped him. The pressure was to stick to the facts." year relationship with Hannah. Jackie feigns a headache to avoid meeting Hannah, criticizes the actress' lack of stability and never gives the approval John so desperately seeks for the relationship.

Tabloid reports suggested Caroline Kennedy was so distraught over the movie showing her brother failing in business and in love that she lost 20 pounds. Even one star acknowledged the film could be unsettling. "I'm sure she (Caroline Kennedy) is upset about it," De Rossi said. "How horrible that this is actually going to boost the rating for TBS. A tragedy like this was devastating for that family." Hannah reportedly had an equally strong reaction to her portrayal as a flighty, needy actress whom Kennedy's mother didn't think was suitable for her son.

The movie shows prep novels the case in many libraries. But now, in the effort to respond to competition from bookstores, supplement income in an era of tight budgets and respond to a changing audience, coffee i3 cool with some librarians. "More libraries are actually 'serving" coffee in coffee bars, which is the bigger trend," says Carla Hayden, head of By BETH HARRIS Associated Press writer LOS ANGELES John F. Kennedy lionized as a staggeringly handsome man and top marriage material, didn't have it easy with the women in his life. His future wife demurred when he suggested.a quick second date, his mother snubbed Daryl Hannah at their initial meeting and then wielded a heavy hand on her son's choice in careers and romances.

Kennedy's struggles to make a life for himself despite being a celebrity since birth and his devotion to his mother, sister and wife is depicted in the TBS Superstation TV movie "Amer-ica's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story" airing 8 p.m. Sunday. The two-hour movie is based on Christopher Andersen's best-selling book, "The Day market line "Simon's Saga," a similar book released last September by Bar-rons that features 820 SAT words.

Part of a $500 million SAT test-prep industry, the fortified novels are the latest in a long line of guides, flip books, practice tests and cartoon collections that are raising the hopes of busy college-bound students these days. As spots for top schools get more competitive, and students aim for higher scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, families are finding that there is a preparation technique for every taste and a book for every budget. Observers worry that the new products will raise little more than revenue for test-prep companies, which use the books to promote expensive group and individual tutoring services. "The SAT isn't something that you really should be prepping for," says Amy Schmidt, director of higher education research for the College Board, the non-profit association of schools, colleges and education What's Up John Died," as well as interviews Kennedy gave and news accounts of his life. The film focuses mainly on the grown-up years of the little boy whose poignant salute to his father's passing casket in 1963 was seared into a nation's memory.

It stars Jacqueline Bisset as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, reprising a role she played in the 1978 movie "The Greek Tycoon," and Portia de Rossi as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Kristoffer Polaha and Tara Chocol, both unknowns, play JFK Jr. and actress Hannah. The movie opens with the search for Kennedy's private plane after it crashed into the ocean on July 19, 1999, killing him, his wife and her sister, Lauren Bessette. Several scenes are devoted to clashes between Kennedy and his mother over his five- of SAT test groups that sponsors the test.

She said taking challenging courses and reading good books will help a student just as well as cramming for the SAT or slogging through "McAllister," with its boldfaced vocabulary words and glossary at the end. Even with tutoring, Schmidt said, the average student raises his or her score only 20 points on the 800-point math section and eight on the 800-point verbal section. That hasn't stopped the College Board from marketing its own line of materials for the SAT, the nation's most widely used college entrance exam, taken by about 1.3 million students annually. Kaplan publisher Maureen McMahon says nearly all prep guides 89 are purchased by parents, and most students use several methods of preparation. "You really do need to have different products for different students," she says.

Bob Schaeffer, public education director fyr the National MUST-SEE TV Working out "Friends," is in its usual slot, 8 tonight on NBC. Joblessness, even temporarily, seems hard on people. Rachel visits the office during her maternity leave and worries that the temp (played by Dermot Mulroney) will take her place. Chandler, who just quit his Oklahoma job because he missed Monica, Associated Press Life examined: Actor Kristoffer Polaha portrays John F. Kennedy, and actress Portia de Rossi plays Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in a scene from the TBS movie "America's Prince: The John F.

Kennedy Jr. Story," airing at 8 p.m. Sunday. Publishers ByGREGTOPPO USA TODAY The opening lines of the mystery novel "The Ring of McAllister" offer a hint of what's to come: "A 'zephyr blew gently across the neighborhood, and Will quivered at the cool autumn breeze. He shook the reddish brown and yellow leaves that had fallen from the deciduous trees and accumulated against his feet.

"Feel like you're prepping for theSAT? You are. "The Ring of McAllister" appears on bookstore shelves this month, just as more than a million high school students begin studying for the new round of SATs. Published jointly by Simon Schuster and the test-prep firm Kaplan, the 329-page novel promises better SAT scores painlessly, its front cover trumpeting "1,046 must-know" vocabulary words scattered throughout the story It joins Mulroney now has too much empty time. And Phoebe causes chaos when she's an extra on Joey's soap opera Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, says the books and tutors are part an "SAT arms race." "Every parent believes that every other kid is arming themselves and has this secret arsenal." Kaplan publishes a range of books, from the serious "SAT 1600" Prep for Advanced to the pocket-sized "Procrastinator's Guide to the SAT" that acknowledges in the preface, "So now you're in a tight spot." Princeton Review has its own slacker title, "Crash Course for the SAT," that test prep developer Jeff Rubenslein calls "the best prep you can do in a week." "McAllister" author Robert Marantz, a screenwriter, said the short chapters "lend themselves well to reading on the go" between classes, before team practice or on the bus. "This approach short but focused reading also gives the reader a chance to let the new words sink in," he says.

I NEW ON VIDEO DVD format Jennifer Aniston could use more friends in the downbeat drama The Good Girl." Aniston plays Justine, a small-town Texas clerk trapped in a stale marriage with a husband, Phil, who she suspects is infertile due to his chronic pot smoking. Frustrated, she finds a seemingly kindred spirit in Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), a younger clerk claiming to be named after the famous J.D. Salinger character. Before long, the two begin an affair, but things become complicated when she gets pregnant and her husband's best friend, Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson), threatens to reveal her secret. The movie is rated R..