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...Lisa Smile, due out in December, required some serious study. Roberts plays a professor at Wellesley College in 1953 who tries to inspire her students to think beyond marriage. Director Mike Newell made his cast of postfeminist women, including Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles, take manners lessons and wear rubber girdles. "They complained about it," says Newell. "It was antithetical to the way they were brought...
...Using deadly weapons to keep the peace is like using antibiotics to fight the common cold?it just makes the enemy more resistant. Surely, nonlethal weapons, such as PepperBall guns or rubber bullets, would not only save lives but also do less damage to the American image abroad. Since police are able to control crowds and avoid riots using nonlethal means, why can't peacekeeping soldiers use the same methods to break this cycle of violence? Penny Freeland S?o Paulo...
...Water Ball, this summer's fad toy, has consumer-safety advocates alarmed. They warn that the rubber toy poses a strangling hazard for kids. Some parents say their children have managed to swallow the liquid inside, which in some cases has proved to be flammable and toxic. Consumer-protection officials in New York and Massachusetts are urging the product's removal from stores. Peter Tiger, CFO of Imperial Toy Corp., one of several wholesalers marketing the toy, says his company has sold almost 10 million of the yo-yos and insists they are safe. --By Nadia Mustafa
This, naturally, has Beijing alarmed. China's leaders have backed Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa because they believed he could keep Hong Kong in its place. And until now, the city's faux Parliament could be counted on to rubber-stamp any legislation put forward by his administration. But Tung has lately mishandled a string of crises--economic, epidemiological (SARS hit the city hard) and now a constitutional one--thereby politicizing Hong Kong and becoming a liability to Beijing...
...When Vaclav Havel became Czechoslovakia's President in late 1989, one of his stated priorities was to overhaul the drab, Communist-era livery of the Castle Guard, the ceremonial troops at Prague Castle. "The green uniforms and plastic ties on a rubber band didn't give the country a good image," says Ladislav Spacek, Havel's former spokesman. Today, the soldiers wear fetching grey-and-blue uniforms, complete with tassels and shoulder braids in the colors of the Czech flag, and their changing-of-the-guard ceremonies attract scores of tourists. But last week the unit was once again...