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...brand of colorful, well-stocked superstores, angry local competitors tried to impede the powerhouse U.K.-based retailer's progress with a wall of lawsuits?including one that would have forced Tesco Lotus, the company's regional subsidiary, to shut off air conditioning because chilly stores posed a public health hazard to the equatorial Thai people. Frivolous legal actions were a minor nuisance compared with what came next. Over a five-month period last year, two Tesco Lotus outlets were bombed, another peppered with automatic weapons fire and yet another hit by a rocket-propelled grenade...
...that they will necessarily find a link. A four-week study carried out at the Duke University Medical Center this fall concluded that kava, used responsibly, poses no significant health hazard. "We didn't observe any abnormalities in liver function or any other significant side effects," says Dr. Kathryn Connor, one of the authors of the study. She points out that some of the cases reported in Europe were complicated by extraneous factors; some patients had been taking extremely high doses of kava over long periods of time, or using it with alcohol, or taking...
...Omen Prompted by the Sept. 11 attacks, Japanese company Koken has launched a child-size hazard mask that protects against chemical and biological weapons...
...paraphrase Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry (and Pogo): I have seen the enemy—and her name is Shelley Newman...
Earthquakes are another hazard, inflicting damage on the building in 1975. In 1997 a tremor caused the partial collapse of the Basilica in Assisi, 320 km to the south, reducing some of its Giotto frescoes to a jigsaw of tiny fragments. Under Professor Basile, the crumbled artworks were reassembled and reinstated in record time. This achievement made Basile a natural choice to direct the Scrovegni restorations. Like Giotto, who organized assistants into a production line preparing plaster layers, grinding colors and transferring sketches, Basile assembled his team. As well as Institute graduates, he recruited Gianluigi Colalucci, who was responsible...