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...Joseph has a website, www.SaveThePlasticBag.com, which comprehensively details, among other things, how much cockroaches love paper bags; and as a lawyer, he's a pretty good publicist: in 2003 he sued Kraft Foods to prevent the sale of Oreo cookies to children under the age of 11 in California, on the grounds that they were full of trans fat. While he didn't win the court battle, he clearly won the war; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an anti-trans-fat bill into law on July 25. Earlier, Joseph sued San Francisco's parking department to get the agency to remove...
...Until sampling Dr. Dre's Beats - a set of high-end headphone that go on sale today at Best Buys and Apple stores everywhere - I felt the same way about personal listening devices. And I've been trying out many different kinds lately: in ear, over the ear, wireless, noise-canceling, etc., at a variety of price points. Generally speaking, you get what you pay for, but most people would be hard-pressed, within a specific price range, to pick one brand over another...
...does anyone wanna be Madonna? Does anyone even wanna see Madonna? Not on the movie screen. Body of Evidence, in which she played a woman accused of killing her lover with sex, earned just $14 million at the U.S. box office, less than her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare. Sales of Madonna albums have also had diminishing returns; the latest, Erotica, has sold about 2 million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first-day sale in bookstores but quickly reached climax, then rolled over...
...Union. ''If any letter has a chilling effect, this one froze people.'' The document in question is a letter that Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography mailed to 23 retailers last February saying that the panel had ''received testimony alleging that your company is involved in the sale or distribution of pornography.'' The letter also contained an ominous invitation: ''The Commission has determined that it would be appropriate to allow your company an opportunity to respond to the allegations prior to drafting its final report section on identified distributors.'' Failure to answer the charges within three weeks, said...
...Products, a major spray- paint manufacturer based in Carson, Calif. Nonetheless, the proposed spray tax may prove to be the lesser of two evils. The 15 city council members are also considering another measure, which would require store owners to force purchasers to fill out registration forms with every sale. The council hopes to vote on both ideas early next month...