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...cease to be dirty and thus cease to be porn. (Would you be reading this article if Skin were set in the aluminum industry?) But porn is definitely Big Business--estimated at $10 billion a year--and as Skin emphasizes, much of that goes into the coffers of blue-chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck a deal to control. "Certainly," says Leonard dryly...
...result, the food industry has become a place where product design is micromanaged as never before--where flavors are built literally by the molecule, salt crystals are measured by the micron, manufacturers agonize over which side of a chip is the best place for the flavoring, and any new product under development must be focus-grouped and taste-tested down to its last scrap of fiber and last drop of corn syrup...
...game one, Dartmouth jumped out strong, only to have the Crimson slowly chip away at the lead. Harvard finally caught the Big Green to tie the game at 27 and the Crimson completed the rally to take the game...
...Five years later, on his return from the Reykjavik summit, Reagan sounds a bit frustrated that the Soviets aren't buying his promise to share Star Wars technology in exchange for a reduction in all offensive missiles. "I have never entertained a thought that SDI could be a bargaining chip. I did tell Gorbachev that if and when we had such a system ... we'd share such a defense with them. I don't think he believes...
...DESTROYED. Galileo, unmanned spacecraft whose 14-year mission to Jupiter revolutionized understanding of the giant planet; in Jupiter's atmosphere. Operated by a version of the same computer chip used to run the Pong video game, Galileo beamed down more than 14,000 photos during its life span, providing evidence that a vast subterranean ocean exists on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Galileo was running out of fuel and NASA worried the craft might spread microorganisms from Earth if it crashed into Europa...