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...subsidies on postage and a television advertising ban due to expire by 2007 for retailers and publishing houses, last year newspapers attracted only 15.7% in total advertising outlay in France, compared to 43.5% in Germany, 39.7% in Britain and 31.4% in the U.S. Finally, the papers are hampered by rigid and expensive union contracts; a proposal to switch the afternoon Le Monde to the morning failed in part because the printers' union didn't want to work nights. "France's daily press has reached the end of the subsidized economy," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors...
...conclude that the agency was trying to undermine the President. Not everyone in the White House was bothered by the book, but those who were included Vice President Dick Cheney, who had tangled with the CIA endlessly over Iraq and had long grown impatient with the agency's rigid devotion to rules. "What the White House has decided, particularly Cheney," a campaign veteran told TIME, "is that the agency has been leaking on us for a year. So we don't have much to lose by cutting them loose...
Computers in your shoes? Believe it. A sensor in the new adidas 1 sneakers measures with each step how much compression you put on the heels of the shoes. Microprocessor-controlled cushioning then adjusts the heels' stiffness so they become more rigid on dirt trails, for example, and softer on pavement or when you're walking. In addition, you can set comfort levels with buttons on the shoes. The lithium-ion battery that fuels the system lasts about 100 hours...
After Arafat The death of the rigid old revolutionary leaves millions in mourning but may help the peace process. Should the U.S. get involved...
According to Corbett, the book will give its reader a real education about how football began, how it developed and how “it got to be the game it is today.” The need of Harvard and Yale men to rebel against rigid campus life through vigorous physical activity, and to prove their superiority against one another in athletic skills developed into the “Boston game” of football...