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...floated, payable over 25 years, to compensate plaintiffs for smoking-related ailments. Together, market leader Philip Morris and No. 2 Reynolds command a 72% share of the $45 billion U.S. tobacco industry. Cynics noted that demand for cigarettes is inelastic--the companies would just force nicotine junkies to cough up an additional 25 cents a pack, which now averages $1.80. The industry would also scrap its outdoor advertising and remove human and human-like figures from remaining ads, thereby laying to rest the images of the Marlboro Man and Joe Camel...
Krakauer clicked the traditional victory snapshots and started back down the mountain. But Into Thin Air, his fascinating and troubling account of the climb (Villard; 293 pages; $24.95), is no chronicle of triumph. He was in ragged physical shape. A wracking cough had torn loose chest cartilage; his body had burned away 20 lbs. of muscle mass; he was running out of bottled oxygen. But the deadliest element of his situation was one he barely noticed: innocent-looking clouds rising from valleys to the south. They were the tops of thunderheads, carrying a violent spring storm that would kill...
...designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee as a kind of chilly Rockefeller Center South. Fortunately for fans of Times Square's higgledy-piggledy aesthetic, the late-'80s economic downturn pulled the rug out from under that plan. And there was this added benefit: the developers were obligated to cough up $241 million to the city and state whether or not they ever built. That kitty allowed planners to start condemning properties and evicting what they saw as undesirable tenants. Developers still have the right to erect their office towers--ground has already been broken on a building that will...
...Some 60 million households have "revolving" credit-card debt averaging more than $6,000, at an interest rate of about 17%. An uptick would add nearly a billion dollars in interest expenses. And those holding some $1.2 trillion in adjustable-rate mortgages and home-equity loans would have to cough up roughly $3 billion more. Now that's inflationary. Can we afford higher rates? Credit-card delinquencies are already at recessionary levels, and personal bankruptcies have reached a record pace--20,000 a week. Thus, even a minor rate hike could mean trouble and possibly bring the six-year economic...
...dealing as it does "with the lowest rung, the have-nots. I loved being at the bottom of the pond." So, obviously, did Depp. "He absorbs so much," says the wondering Pistone, with whom Depp hung out for weeks, perfecting all his mannerisms--right down to a nervous cough--that "he doesn't try. It just comes to him. And he remembers everything. He's like a sponge...