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...There is a disturbing trend in Hollywood to obliterate camp - even though campiness is a chief asset of a cult classic or any movie that acquires legendary status. But suddenly, movie execs want purity--"truth" at all costs. The latest victim is Barbarella, that terribly cheesy but wonderfully entertaining 1968 film starring Jane Fonda; Fonda vamped it up as an astronaut in the 41st century trying to save a positronic ray. Audiences ate it up. Drew Barrymore has signed on for a remake, but the new Barbarella will dump the camp factor and tell a very serious scientific story about...
...translation for "unlimited guarantee." And if you?re a foreign company that happens to forget this little rule of commerce, or offer your customers a little promotional gift, a consortium of 1,600 German businesses will be happy to take you to court to keep you in line. The latest defendant in the German war against "unfair competition" is Wisconsin-based clothier Lands? End. The charge? That Lands? End?s unlimited money-back guarantee ? inviting consumers to return any of the company?s products, at any time, for any reason ? is illegal under German laws purported to protect consumers from...
...turning off their computer. The FTC is ticked off in part because legitimate web commerce is suffering, as potential online consumers are unable to reach their desired destinations. And parents are enraged because despite efforts to turn the Internet into a kid-friendly Disneyland of information, this latest scandal underlines their ultimate lack of control in cyberspace...
...island has strict building codes to thank for the fact that it wasn't considerably higher. As rescuers Wednesday struggled to reach some 3,000 people estimated to be trapped under the rubble and quake specialists and civil engineers from around the world rushed to Taiwan to study the latest disaster, early word was that it could have been a lot worse. Despite the strength of the tremor ? 7.6 on the Richter scale compared with 7.4 for the recent Turkish disaster ? the destruction was limited by the enforcement of strict building codes, some of them modeled after those in California...
...challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while the latest clampdown signals an end to friendly relations between Jordan and Hamas, it?s unlikely to start...