Posted on: Tuesday, October 1, 2002
THE LEFT LANE
For the love of food
Advertiser Staff and News Services
A way to a man's heart may be through his stomach, but women can get all emotional just looking at food on the shelves. When the Integer Group promotional agency asked 698 women in a survey this year, "When shopping for which item do you feel most sensual?" the No. 1 answer was shampoo and personal items (14 percent), followed by sweets (11 percent). When asked which area of the grocery store made women feel romantic, most said sweets (18 percent), with baked goods at second (10 percent). Which item on the grocery shelves made women feel excited? About 24 percent said ice cream, and 21 percent said whipped cream. Canned goods excited only.08 percent. When asked what item one would buy when the economy is good, 43 percent said premium ice cream, followed by steak and prepared foods.
Help from Hillary
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A shared concern over women's issues — and some macadamia nuts — helped Nancie Caraway land an appearance by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for a conference on human trafficking (for example, people who are kidnapped or lured to work in sweatshops, as domestic help or as sex workers) Nov. 13-15 at the Hawai'i Convention Center.
Caraway, director of women's human rights projects for the Globalization Research Center and wife of U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, met Clinton while teaching women's studies at Georgetown in the early 1990s. "Hillary is actually the person who introduced the issue (of women's human rights) to me," Caraway said.
Caraway wrote to Clinton, who put the conference date on her calendar. Macadamia nuts sent to the New York senator's staff didn't hurt, Caraway suspects: "That's always a great calling card." Information: www.globalhawaii.org; click on upcoming events.
Researching change
When the Bishop Museum's "Navigating Change" exhibit at the Hawaii Maritime Center opens Saturday, the public will see what schoolchildren have been given a first-hand glimpse at: a research expedition to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
O'ahu middle school children have been taking field trips to the museum (at the Maritime Center at Pier 7, Honolulu Harbor) to get a chance to imagine themselves as researchers aboard the research and education vessel Rapture.
As students go through the exhibit, they can role-play as researchers and ask questions of researchers who really are exploring the ecosystem of the remote islands.
