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...blame in more than half the fatalities: pit bulls and Rottweilers. So what should you do if approached by an angry-looking canine? Stand still, don't scream, avoid eye contact--and don't smile. A dog interprets smiling as teeth baring, a signal that you're about to launch an attack of your...
...company is not without options. Firestone could launch an all-out price war, which analysts fear would hurt an industry saddled with rising commodity costs and little pricing power. Points out Wendy Beale Needham, auto analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette: "[Firestone] does have a parent with resources and a different brand name...
...Friday afternoon for the past few months, Pop's 85 employees had gathered in their Glendale, Calif., warehouse to sip beers and slap backs for the films they already had in the can: shorts starring Rene Russo, Steve Martin, Claudia Schiffer. Last Friday, just two weeks before the planned launch, they were chugging beers to drown their sorrows and being eyed by security guards to make sure they didn't steal the computers as they left the premises for the last time...
...going to be the Richard Hatch of this cyber-movie island, you'd expect it to be the DreamWorks-Howard ticket. But Pop fizzled as if it didn't have the will to live: the site issued only three press releases in its brief life and delayed the launch so often it became an industry joke. Out of the $50 million purse promised them by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, it spent a paltry $7 million--barely a long liquid lunch by Silicon Valley standards...
...independent production company, Public Affairs Television, has turned out 63 programs over the past 25 years, amassing more than 30 Emmy Awards. Long before completing On Our Own Terms, the four-part series on dying that airs this week on public-broadcasting stations across the U.S., they had helped launch more than 200 community-based coalitions that have been planning activities to raise public awareness of the end-stage care issues discussed in their documentary. And well after the final show ends Thursday night, nearly 70 national organizations, along with local public-TV stations and a website PBS.org/onourownterms) will...