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...also puts in question the future of The WB, whose teen-girl-TV specialty is starting to look, like, *so* 1990s. "Felicity," for instance, is still a reliable, well-drawn charmer, but it never became the phenomenon many were predicting at its hugely hyped 1998 launch. "Dawson's Creek" still pulls audiences, but its aging, self-absorbed characters are getting more whinily irritating by the minute, and it's quickly approaching the "Beverly Hills 90210" everyone's-already-slept-with-everyone-else limit, as Kevin Williamson prepares to send the cast off to whatever suddenly invented fictional college they...
...There are now two Kinkade galleries in the London region, one in Glasgow and another slated to open in Birmingham in August. Forty to 50 outlets are to launch in the U.K. and Ireland within the next seven years. "Our objective is that in the next five years international development will represent about 50% of the company's total revenue," says Rick Barnett, MAGI's senior vice president of retail development...
ResidenSea had planned all along to launch three such ships and, after its success with the World, has already ordered the second. The company expects to complete financing later this year, using many of the same investors. The World's condo buyers are proof that if you build a floating town, they will come. But will they stay? Industry insiders say that granting residents ownership creates potential friction with ship operators. Others foresee an inevitable shake-out as passengers shun certain amenities or even one another. Andy Vladimir, co-author of Selling the Sea: An Inside Look at the Cruise...
Consumers may also get a taste of the new medicine. The same companies are helping providers launch their own so-called physician portals, which allow patients to make appointments, send secure e-mail to doctors and view their own charts and lab results. As part of a pilot project in Silicon Valley, insurers for a group of companies, including Oracle and Cisco, will soon reimburse doctors for certain e-mail consultations. At the end of the trail, WebMD's goal of online, real-time insurance-eligibility checks and claims adjudication is very slowly starting to become a reality...
...ended Thursday night when the U.S. space agency agreed to allow American millionaire Dennis Tito aboard the International Space Station next week, according to sources close to negotiations. NASA officials in Washington would neither confirm nor deny the move; however, NASA chief Daniel Goldin, in Cape Canaveral for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday told reporters, "I expect before the launch of Mr. Tito, all the issues will be resolved." The response - he refused follow-up questions - would seem to indicate that Tito, who reportedly paid $20 million for the trip aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle, will...