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...curb consumption of sugared soda, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) last week urged the FDA to slap cigarette-style warning labels on these drinks, citing statistics like this: in 2004 the average American drank 37 gal.--60,000 calories--of what CSPI calls "liquid candy...
With a $225 million paycheck, a gal gets used to a little special treatment. So when OPRAH WINFREY was denied entry to the Hermès store in Paris 15 minutes after closing time, the daytime queen got peeved. The ultra-luxury retailer later apologized for snubbing "Mme. Oprah," saying the store was setting up a "private public relations event." Winfrey told Hermès' U.S. president she would never shop at Hermès again. She will, though, discuss the event on her show. That means the media will finally address that age-old issue of social import: the right to browse...
...bases. These facilities serve as a supply and deployment base for the U.S. Central Command, formerly called the Rapid Deployment Force, should a crisis develop in the region. Washington has spent $256 million to lengthen runways, harden concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies to be forwarded by helicopter to U.S. naval task-force ships in the Indian Ocean...
...with prices at the pump dipping below 700 per gal., the economic incentive for a 55-m.p.h. limit is fading. In the West, state governments are joining individual drivers in rebelling against Washington's go-slow edict. Arizona, South Dakota and Nebraska have reduced fines for exceeding the speed limit to as little as $10. Those states, as well as North Dakota, Minnesota and Nevada, have passed laws eliminating penalty points for some speeding infractions. California has discussed raising the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. on highways in less populated areas...
...crime spree; other Order members drew prison terms of up to 100 years. In Arkansas last year, a heavily armed camp of another Identity group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, surrendered to state and federal officers who confiscated a large arms cache and 30 gal. of cyanide. The leader was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the Midwest, Identity ideas are frequently espoused by groups like Posse Comitatus, the violent tax-protest vigilantes...