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...instead it sided with the Commission on the two major issues, and upheld the fine (the ruling also activates a Commission decision from July last year that fined Microsoft a further $378 million for dragging its heals in compliance). Indeed, the only point that Microsoft won was a minor one on whether it should be forced to pay for a trustee to monitor its compliance with the 2004 decision...
...bullet-proof glass. Construction proceeded. In July, however, local newspapers reported that Gemini is, in fact, a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood's local branch. Still, in August, the city routinely issued a temporary permit allowing the $7.5 million clinic to open on Sept. 18 with just two relatively minor provisions: install more exit signs, as well as glass at service counters. There seemed to be little legal questions about it at the time: It is normal for commercial concerns to use subsidiaries to conduct business and set up offices...
When Kevin Everett showed movement in his limbs late Sept. 11, his doctor called it "a minor miracle." The Buffalo Bills defender had crumpled after a seemingly routine tackle during a Sunday game. Doctors quickly ran an ice-cold saline solution through his body--a relatively new treatment to prevent spinal swelling. That may have saved him from lifelong paralysis. These types of injuries are much rarer now since high schools and colleges prohibited head-first tackles in 1976. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Football injuries resulting in quadriplegia- high school, college...
...surgery to relieve the pressure on his spine. His orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Andrew Cappucino, had said Everett's chances of walking again are "bleak or dismal." However, after Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs on Tuesday, Cappuccino reportedly told a Buffalo TV station "we may be witnessing a minor miracle...
...Autumn of 1997, Yau Leung was just starting to earn a minor artistic reputation when he slipped off a ladder in his studio, hit his head, and died. That the light should have left the eyes of Hong Kong's greatest photographer in so banal a manner makes contemplation of his passing especially difficult. If photographers are not felled covering disgraceful coups or scrappy jungle wars, posterity likes them to advance to gurgling senility, feted by models, retrospectives and hand-numbered editions. There is no romance in death by lapse of concentration - especially not in a man whose defining artistic...