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...ended up bagging its annual golf tournament this year. The event, which would have been held this month in San Diego, used to draw big bucks from drug companies eager to talk shop with doctor-duffers. One year Pfizer served breakfast, Otsuka America brought lunch, Novartis supplied the golf carts, TAP Pharmaceutical stocked the beverage cart and nine other drugmakers each sponsored a hole or two. But these days no one is willing to give or take so much as a logo-stamped golf ball...
...m.p.g. Some 116,000 Smarts were sold last year in Europe and Japan, a 16% increase over 2000. But Americans' appetite for fast, powerful cars and roomy sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) makes it unlikely that they will ever settle for a two-seater the size of a golf cart that takes 17 sec. to go from zero to 60 m.p.h. (about twice as long as the typical car sold in the U.S.). Hence Detroit's preoccupation with fuel cells, which could ultimately clean up even the most monstrous...
...other strategy E! uses is pumping Smith full of Red Bull. Smith, who never has all that much energy to begin with, is cranky after driving an hour to an E!-suggested go-cart track with the other paid cast members of the show: her ever present (and unfortunately named) attorney, Howard Stern; her assistant, Kim Walther, who sports a tattoo of her boss; and Smith's son Daniel, 16, a sensitive kid who happens to hate being videotaped. Sensing the group's lack of energy, an E! exec appears from nowhere proffering Smith her seventh Red Bull...
...Fernando Valley is stocked with a Costco's worth of Kraft Easy Mac, pizza-flavored Pringles, Handi-Snacks and Cheetos. In addition to frying the occasional peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Smith has been caught on camera putting Cheez Whiz on a pickle. At the go-cart place, Smith, on the second day of her diet, attempts to eat a piece of celery, which she tries to peel. If you catch only one episode of her show, I'm guessing it should be the one in which the E!-recommended nutritionist is scheduled to come...
...weeks ago, Pay By Touch was launched at the Thriftway supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed...