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...Coca-Cola didn't have enough trouble with flat sales volume in the U.S., its fledgling online-music business in Europe is also losing fizz. In Britain back in January, the soft-drink company inaugurated Mycokemusic.com which has so far sold about 530,000 tunes for $1.46 to $1.84 a pop. But then in June, Apple launched iTunes in Britain, France and Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart...
...Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward?s ?Blithe Spirit.?? So the co-starring of a stage veteran and a pretty novice gave a showbiz fizz to the Kirkland-Adams alliance. In his nationally syndicated column, Winchell gave space to the couple when they got married. And the same five years later, when they went phffft...
...said. An advertising blitz will begin next week, and a series of substantive speeches has been launched. The last was on fiscal responsibility; the next will be about the "jobs and the industries of the future." But I suspect there's another reason for Kerry's decided lack of fizz since the primaries ended. This is just not a very fizzy candidacy...
Another testimony to the fizz still in this debate is that it remains a good marker in the culture wars. Political scientist John Green of Ohio's Akron University notes that the sense of sin integral to substitution theory informs the religious right's politics of individual morality. Indeed, substitution's top-down nature reaffirms conservatives' scorn of any rights that they feel lack God's biblical imprimatur. "The substitutionary understanding is humbling," says Mohler. "It has the Father in the position of satisfying his righteous demands of us through Christ's atonement. We don't have the authority...
...Currier House seniors planned and executed a study of beer from six different academic perspectives. With topics ranging from beer as literary trope to the impact of age limits and taxes on beer consumption economics, the endeavor was not all foam and fizz...