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When the temperature drops, music lovers are often forced to choose between unzipping their jacket, thus exposing themselves to arctic blasts, and listening to the same set of songs over and over until they pray for frostbite. With the Burton AG Clone MD Jacket, you don't have to choose. Designed for snowboarders, the jacket is made with a Sony Mini-Disc and digital music player sewn right into its fabric. The player's controls are touch-sensitive fabric patches on the jacket's sleeve, so you can control the music just by pressing your arm. INVENTOR Burton Snowboards AVAILABILITY...
That has been the big issue in Danby, Vt., for nearly three years, as a stare-down--sometimes a shout-down--plays out between environmentalists, led by Smith, and the Swiss-based, privately held Omya AG, one of the world's largest suppliers of calcium carbonate. The battle is far more nuanced than the familiar turf war between small-town preservationists and a megacorp. Omya seems more environmentally sensitive to this quiet corner of New England than many other companies might be. Most mining foes, who disapprove of digging almost as a matter of principle, agree that the product Omya...
...large rally ag ainst an Iraq attack is set for this Sunday at 1 p.m. on Boston Common. All who oppose an attack should attend, regardless of quibbles with other causes organizers may try to link to it. I disagreed with some of the speakers on Saturday, especially over a ttempts to link the Iraq issue directly with the crisis in Israel and the Palestinian territories. After all, the issue at hand is greater than the problems of the Middle East. We are dealing with fundamental issues of international law, problem-solving a nd negotiation. But set secondary disagreements aside...
...write off the difference of about €2.1 billion. The main culprit was the group's insurance operations, whose investments have been ravaged by the cratering stock market. "We've not seen such volatility in the history of the world," says Jozef de Mey, chief executive of the Fortis AG insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire European insurance industry...
Most recently, Mead engineered Vodafone’s hostile takeover of rival Mannesman AG...