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Mattel Corporation, the maker of Barbie, has recently released "Presidential Candidate Barbie." Dressed in pearls and a blue suit, Barbie has her hair styled in a sophisticated blonde bob, a la Tipper Gore, and comes with a campaign pin and her own podium...
...come. On the other side of the world, in the offices of the German newspaper Abendblatt in Hamburg, system administrators watched in horror as the virus gobbled up 2,000 digital photographs in their picture archive. In Belgium ATMS were disabled, leaving citizens cashless. In Paris cosmetics maker L'Oreal shut down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics and Fidelity Investments. Even...
DRUG WARNING Since its debut in 1998, Herceptin has stemmed the growth of breast cancer in tens of thousands of women. But now its maker, Genentech, is alerting doctors to possible adverse reactions and even death in a small percentage of patients who have a history of lung problems and did not respond to chemotherapy. A new label in the works will help doctors select the patients best suited for the gene-spliced drug. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...biography Mr. Sankoh has released are often contradictory. He is reported variously to have worked as a wedding and portrait photographer and as a cameraman for the state TV service, spending time in jail for anti-government activities before finding himself, in 1991, a guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader persuaded Sankoh and former hairdresser and nightclub dancer Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie to form the Revolutionary United Front and fight Sierra Leone's government. They trained alongside Liberia's Charles Taylor, who went on to litter his own road to his country's presidency with...
...lead single off _Standing_) opened the concert, while "Gas Panic" also made an appearance. But the crowd was obviously there to hear the band's older songs, as shown by the whoops of recognition in response to "Supersonic" and the cheeky New-Seekers-alluding "Shaker Maker." Conspicuously absent were songs from _Be Here Now_, but no one seemed to mind, at least not when they could sing along to Liam's rousing rendition of "Roll With...