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...rain forest and trade pork-belly futures while hanging from Mount Rushmore. Third-generation mobile telecommunications, or 3G, was going to change life as we know it, starting this month in Japan. Well, it looks like we're safe, for a while at least, from video conferences with the boss while on the privy. NTT DoCoMo, the undisputed hare in the race to bring 3G to market, announced last week that its service wasn't ready, and postponed the launch until October, a move that led to a 5% drop in the company's stock...
...Conflict arises when Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, playing an efficiency expert, is hired to evaluate and improve Briggs' place of business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss, who, following the theft of one fine jewel, is opposed to paying the insurance money. Briggs must think like a thief to continue his tradition of cracking the case. Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Berkeley, and Wallace Shawn play supporting roles. One may anticipate traditional Woody Allen wry, thinking man's humor...
...International Space Station," says Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, the commercial space-tourism agency that brokered Tito's flight. Some Russians agree. Said former cosmonaut Georgi Grechko in a TV interview before NASA yielded: "We have a new station, and the Americans are showing us who the boss...
...full-blown womanhood. As such, it is a very adult meditation on love. The title borrows a line from the Song of Solomon that Reichl discovered in her confirmation Bible: "Comfort me with apples, for I am lovesick." The book luxuriates in her adulterous affair with her New West boss, Colman Andrews, who once greeted Reichl at an airport not with flowers but with fraises des bois flown in from France. "He kissed me and said, 'Close your eyes and open your mouth,'" Reichl writes. "I sniffed the air; it smelled like a cross between violets and berries, with just...
What Young really likes, after years of working part time as a photographer's assistant, is being her own boss. She makes her own hours, although that usually includes Sunday nights. Still, there is plenty of time for her daughters. She can watch tapes of musicals in her warehouse office. And the dress code is up to her. "You know what?" She pauses for a minute and then whispers, "I don't wear shoes...