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Because you spent the winter with your nose buried in a book, you don't know what the big free agent movements and trades were...
...counter smoking--a tactic that produced plenty of posters but not much change in consumers' habits. Legal attacks proved more successful. "We were always outgunned at first," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University and founder of Action on Smoking & Health, an antitobacco group. But that nose-to-nose approach led to victories ranging from bans on smoking in public places to Liggett's surrender last week. Says David Logan, a law professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem: "The longest and most successful joint defense agreement in American industry has started to crumble...
...certain scenarios, notes Roy Burry, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. No industry has greater pricing flexibility, and every nickel-a-pack increase generates $1 billion in annual pretax tobacco earnings. If the industry is worried about gouging customers, shoot, just issue more stock. Wall Street would pay through the nose for a liability-free Philip Morris...
...Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes the technology of another, it's inevitable that this technology will be used--often by the wrong people...
...wrote--we said the possibility of replicating an animal from the dna of fully developed cells is "far beyond the reach of today's science." The next technological step, he notes, might not be too far off. "Suddenly the possibility of cloning a new human from a dictator's nose, as in Woody Allen's Sleeper, is no longer strictly in the realm of fantasy," he says. "If these techniques worked for Dolly the sheep, they will probably work for humans...