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...newspaper ranked the women by annual salary, not accumulated wealth. JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN doesn't have to interview world leaders or tiptoe through blood-spattered crime scenes or try to contain Regis Philbin. Despite this, she will now earn more than most other television personalities, including Katie Couric, Kelly Ripa and anyone on CSI. She has just signed a deal for approximately $25 million a year for four years--so she can afford to buy herself a new robe...
...works: "Reading with [Kelly] Ripa" --with beach-blanket picks like Kate White's If Looks Could Kill--dubs members Ripheads. Among its rules: "Any hint of a life-affirming message will lead to...disqualification from book club...
UNDERRATED Kelly Ripa with Regis Philbin. Kathie Lee's successor matches the 800-lb. gorilla of TV hosts perfectly, balancing silly banter with an arsenal of pungent one-liners and poker-faced comebacks. A Condit interview next...
There is action as well at the level of the European Community as a whole. Last January, E.C. environment commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana got initial approval for a tax to be levied on fuels that give off carbon dioxide. He figures this will eventually push the price of natural gas up about 30% and coal 60%, increases that will spur businesses and consumers to conserve energy. The E.C. has been helping finance development of clean technologies, such as 100%-recyclable cars and low-polluting power generators, since...
...final decision lies with the obscure B.I.E. The European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...