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With Inter Milan trailing cross-town rival AC Milan 1-0 in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal showdown this week, Inter’s fans quickly spiraled out of control, bombarding the field with flares and other bits of detritus...
...projectiles struck AC Milan’s goaltender Nelson Dida in the head, forcing the suspension of the match and the evacuation of the pitch. When the two sides returned, the flares rained down once more, prompting the end of the contest...
...DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader in the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Lakeville, Connecticut. In between frequent retirements, the "King of Swing" recorded such hits as Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...Mart launched its in-store TV network in 1997 to pitch products and entertain shoppers. But do people really watch TV while they shop? A new AC Nielsen study says Wal-Mart customers are watching seven minutes of TV while shopping, up from five minutes in 2002. Brand recall was even more surprising--65%, compared with 23% for products advertised on TV. Having installed 100,000 TVs in 2,620 stores, Wal-Mart is rolling out new plasma and LCD models--some at eye level for "can't miss" advertising. PRN (Premier Retail Networks) customizes entertainment, news and product...
...take notes directly onto a thin screen. The Sony VAIO U-Series looks like a PDA but has the power of a PC. The full-fledged Windows operating system means that you can do anything on this device from word processing to movie watching. The fold-out keyboard, mobile AC adapter and ethernet adapter make this device appealing. This one-pound wonder will be released in time for for Christmas...