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Designer Christian Astuguevieille, whose furniture is on display, has created a multisensual circuit around the museum: materials to touch can be discovered in drawers, sounds of splashing and joyful shouts filter through loudspeakers, the restaurant serves food cooked with textile-related plants, and the scent of flowers, licorice and turpentine wafts over paintings. There's even a whiff of chlorine to complete the experience...
...CIRCUIT CITY MESSAGE People can tape 30-sec. video messages for the troops at participating Circuit City stores. Some greetings will...
...rights for the next 100 years, will use racing to boost its ailing pay-per-view channels. These carmakers, who sponsor racing in return for advertising reach, want to protect against that. So Ford, Fiat, Daimler-Chrysler, BMW and Renault have proposed an as-yet-unnamed rival racing circuit, to debut when team contracts are up for renewal in 2008. Kirch spokesman Hartmut Schulz insists, "Carmakers know they would not have a strong platform with a second series." But an industry insider says the automakers are "deadly serious" and are already trying to lure racing stars to their new league...
...skinny guy with a thin mustache and no teeth. To most folks, this Caesar Morales looked like a dreamer without a chance, some local hero or small-time hustler who thought he could ride a few bar room triumphs to success on the pro billiards circuit. Maybe he was Mexican, or Filipino?he didn't say and no one asked. This was the 1985 Red's 9-Ball Open in Houston, Texas, $10,500 to the winner, where billiards' best came to win, not make friends...
...Leonie M. Brinkema, appointed to the district court in Eastern Virginia by President Clinton in 1993, has had her share of reversals by the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. But many of them have come on sentencing issues, where the former federal prosecutor has shown an independent streak and has at times departed from the federal sentencing guidelines -- to the defendant's advantage in some cases and detriment in others...