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Has the economy radically changed your eating habits? Are you a family that is willing to share your stories of coping with soaring grocery prices? What are your tips and strategies? Please e-mail Beth and include a daytime phone number.

Which older leading men are still hot? And which are not? Given the fact that Harrison Ford, at 65, is starring in his latest "Indiana Jones" flick, reporter Ray Routhier would like to find out which male actors 60 and over people think are still hot, and which maybe should be playing grandfathers rather than action heroes. To voice your opinion, e-mail Ray and include a daytime phone number.

Twenty years ago, the Maine Sunday Telegram asked readers “What is a Real Mainer?” and received hundreds of responses. A Real Mainer, readers replied, grows a beard in the fall and shaves it in the spring; raises a big family to help shovel snow; goes to the dump for fun; remembers L.L. Bean before the fish pond, and misses it; and has at least one generation in the cemetery. Now we’d like to revisit and update this portrait. Does a Real Mainer carry an iPod along with his fishing rod? How do “Real Mainers” dress? How do they spend their free time? What do they eat? What do they read? Call features writer Meredith Goad at 791-6332 or contact her via e-mail and include your daytime phone number.