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...fall on our face," says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "That's pretty embarrassing." Nobody is more embarrassed than Davis, who has seen his state taken for billions by energy speculators and threatened with being downgraded to junk-bond status by Wall Street. He might argue that none of that was his fault. But California is also the land of no-fault divorces. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper/Washington and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...also doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this is junk science. School officials dispute the numbers Brockovich is throwing about. They say 216 claims have been filed against the school district, and only 94 of them involve cancers. And what about those specific cancers - Hodgkin's Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and thyroid cancer - listed in the initial suit filed against the oil companies by the Brockovich firm? As the University of Southern California medical school's Cancer Surveillance Program flatly states, "Known causes of these cancers are not petroleum or petroleum products...
...spent two years at Yale. Are you ever going back? I guess that possibility is becoming increasingly remote. But I had a wonderful time there. I met my best friends. I had a few epiphanies, drank too much beer, ate a lot of junk food. But it had been three years since I had acted, and I wanted to return to it. I kind of needed...
...ROLL YOUR OWN All the major e-mail programs (Microsoft's Outlook, Apple's Mail, Qualcomm's Eudora) provide software tools for building personalized junk-mail filters. The Mail program that comes with Apple's OS X is probably the best. It learns to separate the wheat from the e-chaff during a training session, and then lets you fine-tune the results with JUNK/NOT JUNK buttons. Like Outlook and Eudora, Mail also lets you write your own specific filtering rules, but that's a tedious and potentially endless exercise. Outlook users might be better off buying a third-party...
...prosecco, as celebrity cookbook queen Nigella Lawson does [AT DINNER WITH, May 26]. Too many people are washing down their Wal-Mart hot dogs and fat-free Oreos with Snapple. Or jogging off their egg-white omelets. I would love to see a healthy middle ground between eating junk and starving to be thin. The norm should be voluptuous women and a savoring of good food and long dinners. SHERRY OLSEN San Francisco