Today's Globe: fried fare with soy, teen pregnancies, John Wheeler
Since opening its walk-up window service on Revere Beach in 1951, Kelly's Roast Beef has been serving up huge portions of fried clams, french fries, and onion rings. But following a national trend, it has stopped using trans-fat oils at Revere Beach and its other locations in Natick, Danvers, Saugus, and Medford. It's now frying with a vegetable oil made from soybeans. That's right, soybeans - not your typical ingredient in a fried fish plate.
Fewer US teens got pregnant in 2004, but more women in their 20s had out-of-wedlock pregnancies, according to new federal statistics released yesterday.
John Archibald Wheeler, the fertile-minded physicist who disseminated mind-stretching ideas about black holes, wormholes, and quantum foam while confounding admirers by helping to conceive some of the most potent weapons of mass destruction, has died. He was 96.
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