The new Abercrombie & Fitch magazine is doing something its predecessor–a catalog that flirted with soft-porn status–never did: hardly raising an eyebrow.
The publication, which sells for $2.50 and is available at A&F stores, features Michelle Trachtenberg and “The O.C.’s” Chris Carmack, as well as A&F models.
And not a bare bum or breast in sight.
TEACHER PAY: Teachers were paid an average of $45,771 last year, up 3.3 percent, according to the American Federation of Teachers in Washington, D.C.
SPEAKING OF TEACHERS: Accompanying her mother on a campaign visit to an elementary school in Hueytown, Ala., Jenna Bush revealed Wednesday that she will be teaching 4th grade in the fall. The New York Daily News reports that Bush applied at a charter school in Harlem, N.Y., although it is not clear whether that is where she will be teaching.
SADDAM RECAST: The centerpiece of an Iraq war memorial being built outside the 4th Infantry Division’s museum at Ft. Hood, Texas, was cast from the melted bronze of two Saddam Hussein statues blown up by U.S. troops after the invasion of Iraq. The new picture depicts a GI mourning his fallen comrades.
JARED TARGETS CHILD OBESITY: Subway’s weight-loss spokesman Jared Fogle kicked off the chain’s Fresh Step ad campaign that targets childhood obesity, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
STEROID CRACKDOWN: In response to growing national concern about strength-enhancing drugs, Air Force Academy officials in Colorado Springs, Colo., have begun random tests for steroids.
CANNIBAL CAMP?: A site unearthed in the Sierra Nevada contains bone fragments believed to belong to members of the Donner Party, said to have resorted to cannibalism after being trapped in winter of 1846-47. If proven, it would be the first physical clues to back survivors’ accounts.
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Compiled from news services and edited by Patrick Olsen (polsen@tribune.com) and Victoria Rodriguez (vrodriguez@tribune.com)
