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...Commissioner Markos Kyprianou warned that unless the food industry backs off from marketing sugary, salty, fat-saturated products to youth, Brussels could introduce legislation restricting ads during children's TV programs. In March, the E.C. will begin working with the food industry, educators, health experts and consumer organizations to launch a voluntary scheme promoting healthy eating and exercise. "In and of itself I doubt it will be enough,'' concedes Jim Murray, director general of the European Consumer Association. Also, one man's junk food is another man's job - expect to hear a lot in coming months about the health...
...Downing Street. Blair knows this, and may be gambling that Brown would retreat to the backbenches. Blair also knows that Brown might launch a leadership bid and trigger the outcome Labourites fear most: civil war. That would damage Blair at home and abroad, especially in a year when Britain already holds the presidency of the G8, takes over at the E.U. in the summer, and should be preparing for its referendum on the E.U. constitution. But the Prime Minister and his allies may calculate that the biggest casualty would be Brown himself, because the party would blame...
...Delays The planned resignations of three top execs from Irish state-owned carrier Aer Lingus, initially scheduled for May, were sped up amid reports they planned to launch a rival airline...
Just two days before the tsunami, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn received instructions from this frail little species three planetary orbits away, and proceeded to detach and launch its Huygens probe to fly suicidally down to the giant moon Titan--measuring, sensing, learning and teaching through its final descent. All for one purpose: to satisfy the hunger for knowledge of a species three-quarters of a billion miles away...
...shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more than a debt-ridden, old-school phone company...