Word: connors
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...What's the value of an electronic tongue? Wine buyers, stung by recent reports of widespread fraud, will appreciate having an objective tongue on hand to weed out bogus bottles. "You could use it to verify that a wine was made from the proper grapes," says Mary O'Connor, wine director of Planeta Vino, a Madrid wine school. "For example, there are only five authorized grapes for a Rioja, but lots of winemakers sneak in cabernet anyway. This could help enforce the standards." The device, which is small, portable and relatively inexpensive, could also come in handy during...
...career as an actor, that he lunched with Julia Roberts and slept with Madonna (that relationship didn't work out, we're told, because ''Madonna came on far too strong for him. Blatant sexuality really embarrasses John''). According to the book, he flamed out with famous flirt Sinead O'Connor. When John asked for her phone number, the singer snapped...
...called the upbeat statements from pro-lifers a ''kind of premature crowing that is not warranted,'' adding that ''anyone who is thoughtful recognizes that the court is not 5 to 4 on the basic issue of Roe vs. Wade. There is no evidence that (Dissenting Justice Sandra Day) O'Connor or the Chief Justice would be prepared to overrule Roe, although both are disturbed by some of the detailed elaborations and distinctions.'' The Pennsylvania law, which was passed in 1982, would have required physicians to record intimate details about a woman seeking an abortion, including her address, age, marital status...
...Sports like equestrian need gripping scripts to sustain them during the Games. "It would have been the greatest story in equestrian history if Teddy would have made it to the Olympics," says O'Connor. She's probably not far off. But the world never got to meet Teddy - and now may not get to meet O'Connor either. "The whole thing is sad," she says. "Very...
...Connor went into shock. "It took 10 days, 100,000 emails and chat room postings, 30 bouquets of flowers, 300 or 400 pieces of snail mail, and who knows how many text messages before I could move on," says O'Connor. The equestrian world mourned. "RIP to the best pony ever," read one post on the website for The Chronicle of the Horse, an equestrian magazine. "Rest, chum. Thank you for changing the way others look at little horses with big hearts, just like you," read another...