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Doggy snacks look good enough to eat

Named after the snack treat guaranteed to quickly motivate the eternally famished Scooby and Shaggy into exploring the most vile haunted mansion or amusement park, Scooby Snack biscuit flavors include bacon, cheese, chicken and beef in varieties for small-to-medium and medium-to-large mutts. Molded in the colorful shapes of pizza slices, drumsticks, the Mystery Machine, and Shag's and Scoob's craniums, the snacks almost looked good enough for us to do the Doo. Which we probably would have ... if it weren't for a few dang meddling kids!

Redefining the enemy

The war on terror may be ending — at least on one CNN program. Lou Dobbs, host of the nightly CNN business show "Moneyline," says he is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" in favor of the more specific "war on Islamists." He said the enemy is not terror, but radical Islamists who argue that unbelievers should be killed. "This is not a war against Muslims or Islam or Islamics," Dobbs said. "It is a war against Islamists and all who support them, and if ever there were a time for clarity, it is now." During the other 23 hours of CNN's news day, though, the network is sticking with the "war on terror" phrase.

Conventional use of Belly Lights — those tiny, blinking strobes that show off fab abs — are so five minutes ago. Priced at $7 to $10 each, the navel novelties were a hit last year, spotted on everyone from the rave crowd to pop star Christina Aguilera and the St. Louis Rams cheerleaders. Belly Lights were named the hottest summer teen fashion accessory of 2001 by Teen and In-Style magazines.

But the new way to wear the pencil-eraser-sized, watch-battery-powered, flickering accessories is to clip them to your clothes, shoes and hair. The company is even trying to market them as safe for wearing to walk the dog at night or to stick on Halloween costumes. The product, by Beyond Mars, Inc., is not available in Hawai'i stores, but it can be found on the Web site http://lightmybelly.bizland.com/lightmybellycom or by calling the company at (636) 949-9049.