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...book cost a record $9 million; history professors were marshaled to advise on the proper period china and silverware. And CBS, hoping that the show will help carry it to first place in the November Nielsen sweeps, is promoting the epic accordingly. In addition to launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, aimed largely at young women, the network will hold online computer discussions and offer tie-in giveaways, and some CBS affiliates will even give Scarlett look- alike parties...
...last. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been gripped by RSI, and many of them are furious. In the U.S. alone, more than 2,000 have filed lawsuits against the makers of computer equipment. Two big cases -- a multimillion-dollar suit by four newspaper reporters who developed RSI while using the Atex word-processing system, and a similar challenge to IBM -- are expected to go to court this fall. "It's not just typists, it's artists, blacksmiths, hairdressers, massage therapists and people in dozens of other professions," says Stephanie Barnes, a former secretary and RSI victim who went...
...Justice Department charges. Meanwhile, the FBI armed a GE whistle-blower with a hidden tape recorder last year to probe charges that the company had repeatedly ignored warnings about electrical problems that could compromise the safety of its aircraft engines. Not only has the whistle-blower brought a multimillion dollar suit against GE (the company calls the suit "frivolous and outrageous"), but the Justice Department is considering whether to bring its own charges as well...
...then there was the Great Snake Bust. Snake poaching is a multimillion- dollar industry, in which poachers sell skins and live specimens to pet shops and private collectors through shady mail-order houses. So bad is the problem that scientists studying a recent plague of rats in some communities surrounding Texas' Big Bend National Park came to a startling conclusion: the problem resulted from the absence of their scaly natural predators, which had been nearly poached...
...million awarded to Rodney King by a Los Angeles jury last week is not the first multimillion-dollar sum the city has had to pay to compensate for the actions of its occasionally too interventionist police force...