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Question: Vegetarianism is touted to be an anticancer diet, but my husband has been a strict vegetarian (no meat, cheese or eggs) for 15 years and was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Why?

Poll: Should Citizens Alliance continue paying Ruth Arnao's legal bills? (77 votes)

Sideshow: Phila. foodie gets own show

Make that two Philly-area guys from the recent Next Food Network Star to get their own series. Winner Aaron McCargo Jr. of Camden premiered Big Daddy's House yesterday. South Philly's Adam Gertler, one of two runners-up, is in L.A. shooting Will Work for Food. Gertler's half-hour Food Network show combines his comedy with a sense of adventure and p

Shawn Andrews has yet to show for Eagles training camp at Lehigh University. Very little is being said about why he is not there.

Bob Ford: The mystery of Shawn Andrews

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The players come gasping to the sideline, remove their helmets, and sink to one knee. The sweat stings their eyes and runs hotly down their necks, and it takes a minute to even realize that one of the ubiquitous helper kids is standing there with a water bottle in one hand and three shades of sports drink - red, blue and yellow - in the other. The day appears to be abnormally bright, and everything seems to be buzzing.

Poll: Do you agree that the President has little power? (149 votes)

Back Channels: On energy, Democrats in office means a return to the 1970s.

Last week's energy debate in Congress gives voters concerned about gasoline prices a good idea where U.S. energy policy is headed.

Poll: What's the status of the smoke alarms in your home? (81 votes)

Sideshow:: The Olsens' literary genius Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are, in the words of People mag, "gearing up to take the literary world by storm" with the publication of their joint memoir, the 272-page Influence, which purportedly charts the Olsens' spiritual and artistic maturation. (And to think they're just 22 years old.)
Web Winners:: It's called the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, and it sprinted from Congress to the president's desk last weekend in a bid to bring relief to the troubled housing market. Time will tell whether it works. These sites explain and critique the bailout measure.
Inqlings: Mendte sparks Emmy debate: Larry Mendte's legal situation has reached the top echelons of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. NATAS is expected to give its 19 chapters the authority to disqualify someone from local Emmy consideration over his or her conduct - even if the conduct had nothing to do with the Emmy entry. The rule is inspired by the morals clauses in most TV newsies' contracts.
Chris Satullo: Do-good boomers out to rework retirement: They're going to want to. They're going to have to. And America is going to need them to. So expect many baby boomers to keep working past "retirement age," a milestone that the generation's oldest members reach this year.
PhillyDeals: What's this? Wachovia to sell branches?: Ten years ago this summer, First Union (now Wachovia) Corp. paid a fat premium for CoreStates Financial Corp., the last and largest of Philadelphia's big, old national banks.
Head Strong: See the moderates run: Pa. Republicans must resist the lure of the far right - or lose.

Last week Gov. Rendell told members of the national media that winning Pennsylvania requires a candidate to (a) run up the score in Philadelphia, (b) prevail in Lehigh County, and, most important, (c) win the battle for the moderate Philadelphia suburbs.
On Baseball: Old names have new addresses: The final two months of the regular season are upon us and playoff races are beginning to crackle. But on this third day of August, we take a look back at some of the wheeling and dealing of July.
Dave on Demand: Too young: TV glorifies teens playing grown-up: This is the season of the child bride. All summer long, NBC's grotesque Baby Borrowers has been forcing pairs of teens to play house, acting as ill-equipped surrogate parents to a variety of noxious charges. ABC Family has its biggest hit ever with The Secret Life of the American Teenager, about a 15-year-old naïf who gets pregnant.
Sideshow: Reports of Taylor's illness 'overstated': So much for the tabloids. Elizabeth Taylor's publicist says reports that the 76-year-old screen legend suffered from congestive heart failure last week and was put on life support (and thus, was at death's door) are inaccurate.
On Movies: The reality of the 'American Teen' in Indiana: When Nanette Burstein was in high school - a prep school in Buffalo - she spent a year abroad, living with a family in Spain. She was a proper little preppy when she quit the States. She had a pink Mohawk and a new view on life when she got back.
Chick Wit: Raised on disaster alert, but officially not ready at all: I don't know what kind of conversations you had around your dinner table growing up, but ours were generally about disasters. My mother could make a disaster out of anything. Our kitchen was an accident waiting to happen. I reprint below her most important warnings, in case you're sitting in your breakfast nook, blissfully unaware.