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...stop to the deal only days, possibly hours, before it was to be announced. The exact details aren't clear, but at one point Pfeiffer and Waitt met at Waitt's sprawling estate on the Missouri River. Gateway's public relations firm, New York City-based Hill & Knowlton, had begun preparing a press release. Waitt had even dispatched a courier to foreign offices to deliver the news to key executives. But ultimately Waitt couldn't sign on the dotted line. The deal appears to have fallen apart when Compaq started to project some corporate muscle, as in, "You work...
...particularly severe bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden the floor falls through...
...lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, along with public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, the Council For Tobacco Research - USA. and the Tobacco Institute. Philip Morris issued a statement saying it believes the state will lose after spending millions of taxpayer dollars and that Texas taxpayers should also be "deeply disappointed" by the waste of money and time, the company added. In filing suit...
Special guests included designated heckler Ira Flatow, the host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation; James Knowlton, a returning Ig Nobel winner famous for his studies on penises of the animal kingdom; and a paramilitary force made up of Brownie Troop...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Joelle Attinger, James Kelly, Oliver Knowlton (Operations), Christopher Porterfield...