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With autumn just around the corner, Americans can look forward to cool breezes, leaf-peeping trips and, of course, a brand-new allergy season. The Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America this week unveils its rankings of the top 50 U.S. allergy capitals for fall--Harrisburg, Pa., pictured, is No. 1--based in part on seven-year averages of pollen levels, pollen types and the number of antihistamine prescriptions written per capita. Before your next trip--leaf peeping or otherwise--check out www.allergyactionplan.com...
Model Carolyn Murphy wore a leaf-green vintage Loris Azzaro dress to this year's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala, Dolce & Gabbana covered its flapper frocks in kelly-green fringe, and Roberto Cavalli accented his sport-inspired menswear collection with Astroturf shades. In Hollywood, on the heels of The Hulk comes Shrek 2, slated for release in June 2004, as well as three green pieces in the works: Neverland and Peter Pan, both adaptations of the book, and talk of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...
...Angeles, though, going to Starbucks is decidedly pedestrian. Although plenty of tourists stop there en route from Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...
...schools really do move in that direction, that will be a real sea change for this country,” Levey said. “On the other hand, if schools try to use her ruling as a fig leaf, then ultimately we have many years of litigation ahead to try to enforce the standard that the Court set down...
Some analysts concurred. Buying PeopleSoft, they said, would be a onetime adrenaline boost for Oracle, nothing more. The companies are not a natural fit since both are heavily invested in the back office. The only way it makes sense is if Ellison is taking a leaf from the Microsoft playbook: getting bigger, with less competition, is better. Although a combined Oracle-PeopleSoft would not rival SAP's user base, it would be in a more competitive position--and create an ever wider market for Oracle Database. "[Ellison] doesn't need PeopleSoft's products," says Reg King, an analyst...