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...ships since 2000, with 12 more scheduled to be completed this year. The resulting glut in a time of recession has forced operators to slash prices to fill berths. Add in the facts that the QM2 is making her maiden voyage at a time when terrorists can punch a hole in a U.S. destroyer with a rubber raft full of explosives (as they did to the U.S.S. Cole in 2000), Americans are still skittish about foreign travel, and a traveler can fly between London and New York City in six hours for $300--one has to wonder if there will...
...your grocery cart toward the fruit aisle. Studies in animals hint that berries are bursting with benefits. For one thing, they are chock-full of antioxidants, which help absorb some of the toxic molecules called free radicals that the body produces during metabolism. Cranberries may pack a one-two punch. They seem to boost levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which soaks up artery-clogging fat. They may also reduce the amount of damage to the brain that occurs after a stroke. Blueberries appear to lower the risk of heart disease by keeping arteries elastic and making them...
Muzzling Stock Analysts Who will dare say anything bad about a French company again? That question is unnerving stock-market analysts following a one-two punch last week. The Paris Commercial Court fined Morgan Stanley €30 million for harm done to LVMH, Bernard Arnault's luxury-goods firm. LVMH argued that Morgan Stanley, which has worked for rival Gucci, issued biased reports against it. (The firm will appeal.) A day later, catering giant Sodexho called in French regulators after a Citigroup Smith Barney report sent its stock reeling. Both LVMH and Sodexho said they were protecting themselves against erroneous...
...BEST PUNCH: Told Blender magazine that while rehearsing for last fall's MTV Video Music Awards kiss with Madonna, Spears "seemed very distant ... like a lost little girl, someone who desperately needs guidance...
...BEST PUNCH: Responded that after she hadn't seen Aguilera for two years, she "comes up to me in a club and tries to put her tongue down my throat! A lost girl? I think it's probably the other way around...