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Dagnabbit the flu! Ed has an amazing (knock on formica!) immune system which means that he's stuck editing all the sickies' stories today. Stupid Bush Administration. Ed blames you for screwing up the whole flu shot rationing back in the fall. Senior citizens and magazine editors--all should be allowed to get flu shots! Lobby Congress!

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1. Market Watch
Martha Stewart Living Publisher leaves
By Jennifer Waters
3/01/05
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BA8C5F8C9%2D0772%2D41CD%2D9C3C%2D5FC76692233D%7D&siteid=mktw

Suzanne Sobel, publisher and executive vice president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, quit the company Tuesday, less than a week before founder Martha Stewart is set to return.

In a press release, the company touted Sobel's "enormous contributions," but did not explain why she was leaving. She was publisher of Martha Stewart Living, Everyday Food and Body & Soul magazines.

A search for a replacement is beginning immediately. Lauren Stanich, president of publishing, will oversee advertising in the interim.

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Five months in the stir have done wonders for Martha Stewart. Look at her on the current Newsweek. The 63-year-old appears thin, rested and sparkling. It's almost too good to be true.

Actually, it is too good to be true. Newsweek put Stewart's head on a model's body for a cover story that looks at how she will emerge from prison "thinner, wealthier and ready for prime time."

Assistant managing editor Lynn Staley says the photo won't mislead readers. "Anybody who knows the (Stewart) story and is familiar with Martha's current situation would know this particular picture" was a "photo illustration," she says.

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Competition for youngish, hip, weekend readers heats up this week with the Thursday launch of Time Out Chicago.

Heavy on entertainment listings and service-oriented features, the Time Out weekly magazine concept has worked in New York and London but seems headed for an old-fashioned turf war in Chicago

Critics at rival publications point out that Chicagoans are accustomed to getting their entertainment listings and coverage for less than Time Out Chicago's price tag, $2.50 an issue. "It'll be perfect for people who want second-rate listings and want to pay for them, but for people who want first-rate listings and want them for free, they can find them in the Reader," said Alison True, managing editor of the Chicago Reader, a free alternative weekly in Chicago. "They don't know Chicago like we know Chicago."

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