Word: cancellations
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BRITNEY SPEARS Because of a knee injury, the pop tart had to cancel the tour she launched in March. She was filling the seats until then...
Getting The Message If the Russian media still needed a signal on how it would fare during President Vladimir Putin's second term, it came in loud and clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov...
...would add about 35,000 to the sale price of every new car. Among other things, the rules require that carmakers minimize the amount of chemicals used in the manufacture of their autos and dictate that new cars be 95% recyclable. Ford also complained that some directives cancel each other out - explaining that pedestrian safety rules will add weight to cars, while fuel efficiency directives anticipate lighter cars. Sighed a Ford spokesman: "We're piggy in the middle." But - to mix animal metaphors - is Ford crying wolf? "Think of the discussions in the late '80s about how the cost...
...even a fraction of what we found in mice relates to human biology, then we are cautiously optimistic that there may be a new way to think about reversing obesity," says Renata Pasqualini of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Promising research to be sure, but don't cancel your gym membership yet. --By David Bjerklie
...citizenship laws. Under the proposed changes, immigrants will have to wait five years instead of three before becoming citizens. Marrying a Kiwi won't bring that day forward; having a baby in New Zealand won't necessarily make it a citizen; and the government will be able to cancel the passports of people deemed security risks. A review of immigration law is also...