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...Well, calorie counters or teetotalers might. At least that's what the makers of a bumper crop of new red-wine pills are banking on. The latest entry in the burgeoning wine-supplement market is Longevinex, which boasts that its pills are the only ones that both come in airtight capsules and--mon Dieu!--are made of real red-wine extract from France. Packed into each Longevinex capsule is an active ingredient roughly equivalent to between 5 and 15 glasses of red wine or unfermented grape juice. The key compound is an antioxidant called resveratrol, which has been shown...
...said that the case for copyright infringement is hardly airtight against Slater, an affiliate of the Berkman Center...
...airtight case: neither companion nor attackers have been found--not exactly a surprise in a case this old--and most of the evidence is circumstantial. But unless someone comes up with something more, this is the prosecutors' theory, and they're sticking with it. --M.D.L...
...been so fiercely and evenly divided that for decades, stasis has been the rule. The battle has been raging at least since 1986, when an IWC moratorium on commercial whaling took effect. It was intended to allow recovery and assessment of whale populations, but was never airtight: Norway filed a timely objection and, under IWC rules, continues its whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned up in markets. Iceland went so far as to quit the IWC in 1992, protesting the moratorium. It rejoined last October - a move that...
Restorations take place down the corridor, in an airtight clean room where engineers wear space-age bunny suits. Once a drive is painstakingly picked apart, cleaned and put back together, its contents are copied onto a bank of 31 servers. Then the engineers match the jumbled data to file types. This gets harder as the number of file types on a drive increases. Two months ago, San Francisco Web designer Kathleen Craig lost a laptopful of media in dozens of formats, including her resume and wedding pictures. DriveSavers was able to return 80%--lower than average, but for Craig...