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...Harry Potter and the Mid-Life Crisis hits bookstores? Let’s just say that the grand literacy cause and the integrity of her creations were low on Rowling’s priority list when she decided to make her character a brand name. The Harry Potter cash cow clearly depicts the consequences of “corporate altruism”: Rowling benefits, the studio benefits, and the only people who lose in this situation are poor deluded consumers and kids. Repeat after Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes:” I will...
...will take some convincing. The North American route, once a cash cow for many European airlines, has been the hardest hit in terms of cancellations. "Traffic on North American routes was down 25-30% initially, but we don?t know how much it will be affected going forward," said Nick van den Brul, airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London. The Association of European Airlines figures that Europe?s carriers lost $25 million a day in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. British Airways says it will scrap or suspend 190 flights, including 30 on the North Atlantic...
BABY SOY Infants fed formula made from soybeans grow up to be as healthy as those given the standard cow-derived product. A new study comparing the two groups also seems to alleviate concerns that soy's high levels of phytoestrogens, which act like the female sex hormone, could affect development. Nonetheless, experts say, breast milk is still best...
...prize: $2 million in a remote bus-station locker. Before the race is over, Whoopi Goldberg is stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks a bus full of Lucille Ball look-alikes; and a nice Jewish couple played by Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy steal Hitler's car from a neo-Nazi museum. "We have, I think, one of the funniest movies in the world," says Paramount chairman Sherry...
...presented to the Cochin Raja by the Chinese traders who were accompanied by Ma Huan, the treasure ship's chronicler, and an unnamed ambassador (probably Zheng He). The tiles, he claims, were meant for the Raja's palace, but some clever Jewish merchants spread the rumor that Chinese use cow's blood to make porcelain and the King, a devout Hindu, had to give them up - to the Jewish merchants...