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...sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought $700 million of drinks spiked with echinacea, ginseng and other herbs. That's up from $20 million just four years...
...love story, a prophecy and a fairy tale (Pinocchio, to be exact) in the guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
...chair without warning and installed a proven administrator, Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, after Phelan refused to resign. The department faculty members were not officially notified of the decision for nearly three weeks. At this point, the permanent professors met with Knowles but were told that the exact substance of the complaints had to remain confidential...
...However, student support for working within institutions to exact change stretched only...
...note came from - but not the contents of the note itself - and pass it on to the server of the manufacturer of the paper I've written on. The manufacturer's server would execute the send command, zap the note to my e-mail address and deliver an exact reproduction of my handwritten note to my computer...