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...London's bustling South Bank, the WEEE Man has risen. The creation of designer Paul Bonomini, the 7-m-tall humanoid figure - which looks like a menacing mechanical skeleton escaped from some Tim Burton movie - weighs 3 tons and is made of 553 pieces of electrical and electronic waste, including 95 small household appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, toasters and irons), 55 larger consumer items (TVs, video and DVD players, camcorders), 35 pieces of computer and mobile-phone equipment, 12 washing machines, 10 refrigerators and six microwave ovens...
Some skittish firms turn to buyouts to escape unwelcome suitors. "Management has often used them as a weapon to defend against hostile takeovers," says Burton Malkiel, dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management. Directors of Storer Communications, a major cable-TV operator, voted last summer to take the company private for $93.50 a share, rather than accept a $95-to-$96 bid from Comcast, a smaller cable company. Revlon pursued a similar path last month when it arranged a complex $1.8 billion transaction that would break up the cosmetics firm but keep it out of the hands...
...talking about," said Opposition Assemblyman Luis Villafuerte last week. "This is really war." Whatever twists and turns may follow in the Philippine political drama, all parties concerned are aware that the stakes in the battle are growing higher by the hour. --By George Russell. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
...voting day. Many were also wondering when the election will be held, whether the opposition can frustrate Marcos' attempts to control voting procedures and, indeed, whether his rivals can field a ticket strong enough to end 20 years of Marcos' rule. --By J. D. Reed. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
Fonda insists that what the public saw--in this case, the most widely reported middle-aged divorce since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's--was not the confused end of yet another phase but the assertive debut of her complete feminist self, a project that had been quietly flourishing while the marriage deteriorated. When Fonda decided to stay in Atlanta after the breakup, it was widely presumed she did so to stay close to Turner. In fact, she says, she moved into her loft so she could be nearer to the downtown offices of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy...