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...compelling advantage: price. It's half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside the 112 million traditional phone lines. But Citron's outfit is adding 1,000 new customers every day. "He's been sort of a nuisance and a prod," says Steve Koppman, a telecom analyst with Gartner. "He has proved out the concept in the marketplace before the big players...
...what the proposed constitution is about." He thinks Chirac should embrace a referendum fight as a chance to connect voters more seriously to the E.U. But Margot Wallström, the Swedish E.U. environment Commissioner, believes the growth of Euro-skepticism and apathy evident in the election results should prod a more systematic rethink of the E.U.'s future. "Politicians should show greater respect for the people and move forward more slowly in the European integration process," she told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri. "In the European Commission, we must accept that more power should be given back...
...Ertegun and house arranger Jesse Stone had to prod the new guy to drop the crooning (on some early recordings, like ?It Should?ve Been Me? and ?Greenbacks,? he adopts the nasal whisper of a race-track tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were primitive and primal. The lyrics to ?Don?t You Know? might be maddeningly, mantra-ingly repetitive (?Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl...
Most consumers believe dietary supplements are safe. That's a dangerous assumption. Although prescription drugs must be proved safe by their makers, under federal law the burden falls on the FDA to prove that supplements are not safe. The FDA last week got a prod when Consumers Union (CU) warned Americans that they should avoid a "dirty dozen" that may cause cancer, kidney or liver damage, even death. The list: aristolochic acid (birthwort), comfrey, germander, androstenedione, chaparral, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe...
...drive there instead of taking a flight. Some 30 U.S. cities now operate as cruise-ship gateways, including Baltimore, Md.; Galveston, Texas; and Mobile, Ala.--roughly double the number in 2000. This year the falling dollar is expected to discourage Americans from taking European vacations and to prod Europeans to consider U.S.-based cruises. And with 85% of Americans and 90% of Europeans yet to try a cruise, it is no surprise that analysts have been upgrading their estimates of Carnival's stock price--and of the industry's prospects generally...