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...column, "The Sensual Side." And Mulligan has seen a long-term rise in women signing up for classes. Back in 1982, classes at the Wine Center "were predominantly male," she says. "Now our classes are about fifty-fifty." Brosterman's website is another indication. The site, designed to appeal to women who want more from wine than a flirty label, offers a buying club with some sophisticated choices and travel opportunities for women wishing to take wine-tasting trips like the one featured in the 2004 film Sideways...
...thousands of others--the NASCAR partnership will come as a surprise. (As will some of the dishes in the new cookbook, which include mudslide pie made with Oreos and graham crackers.) But Batali's visits to NASCAR events to research the book revealed--not least to him--that his appeal transcends foodies or Italophiles. Last June, just before he threw the green flag at the NASCAR event at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., tens of thousands of fans began to chant, "MOLTO! MARIO!"--a reference to Molto Mario, one of the five Food Network shows in which...
Woolston, for his part, vows to fight eBay regardless of the Supreme Court verdict. One of his rejected patents was reinstated on appeal, he says, and he plans to sue eBay again. An eBay spokesman says the company has a workaround should Woolston get an injunction. Suffice it to say, this is one patent war that won't end soon...
...gangly, immature adolescent boy holds little appeal for the vast majority of women. But such qualities are precisely what these women find irresistible, says Dr. Gilbert Kliman, medical director of the Children's Psychological Health Center Inc. in San Francisco. Kliman has consulted on several cases involving female teachers and counselors who sexually assaulted young boys. "The fact that these boys were all at the dawn of their sexuality and were inexperienced seemed to heighten the interest of these women," he says. "They found the instructional quality of the relationship very appealing...
...claimants in a 17-year-old suit pursuing a $4.5 billion damage award from Exxon for its 1989 Valdez oil spill are puzzled: Why doesn't the world's largest and most profitable oil company just pay the victims and move on? Exxon recently argued its third appeal of the award handed out by a jury in 1994 as punishment for the Valdez spill, the largest in U.S. history, which dumped more than 11 million gal. of oil into Alaskan waters. Exxon says it has already paid out more than $3 billion and owes nothing else. The oil giant...