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...Jon Johanssen wanted to do when he wrote his own DVD-playing software was find a way to watch movies on his computer. What his software has become is the latest focal point of a controversy that has exploded, in which technology, business and the First Amendment collide. When Emmanuel Goldstein, who runs a hacker magazine called 2600, posted Johanssen's software on a website, eight media companies (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) sued Goldstein, who also goes by the name Eric Corley. Last Thursday a New York judge ruled in the companies' favor, raising questions about...
...first hand transplant of its type in the U.S. and one of only eight worldwide. (Reattaching a patient's own severed hand is far more common.) So far, his transplant team, led by Dr. Warren Breidenbach, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr. Jon Jones, now at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., seems to have overcome the most formidable challenge of such a procedure--long-term limb rejection. While immune-suppressant drugs have improved the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants, the arm is composed of several different tissues, which trigger different degrees...
...least 10 complaints about tread separation that the companies have settled. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) had been hearing complaints about the tires since 1991 but didn't act until last May, when the numbers spiked following an investigative report by TV station KHOU in Houston. Says Jon Goldberg, director of crisis management for the Edelman Worldwide p.r. firm: "As the evidence mounted, they [Firestone] could have moved much more quickly to take action...
...Barbara Boxer, Lynda Bird Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys and a Lawford or two, as well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post and TIME mag man Carl Bernstein (now running Evote)as well as editor Frank Lalli of George magazine, which cohosted the fund-raiser along with the Creative Coalition and some no-name types like George Clooney, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Samuel...
Last year, Holloway and five other conservatives on the Kansas school board voted to downplay evolution in the state's science standards. All over the globe and on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, the world alternated between laughter and outrage. Kansas was made to look stupid. Very stupid...