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What?s a self-respecting slob to do? Turn to the ever-reliable red meat? Not likely, after the e.coli scare caused by the largest ever recall of ground beef in the nation?s history. And as if couch potatoes weren?t infuriated enough by the sight of FDA swat teams swarming over hamburger patties like flies on the proverbial, they were also treated to the disgustingly healthy sight of all those UPS workers being active again. Not to mention the trim Mir cosmonauts and their astronautical acrobatics. As if to rub it in, the very first space commercial released...
...Jobs says the board came to him and offered him both the CEO's and chairman's job. "I thought about it," he admits, "but decided it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life." Taking the chairman's job, in particular, he said would "scare away" any real candidate for the CEO's job, given Jobs' penchant for down-your-throat management. Yet it may not be much better for the new CEO to have him sitting on the board, especially the reconstituted activist board of Jobs allies that he hopes will keep Apple on the right...
...will it? Manufacturers in major industries targeted by the EPA ? paper, metal, oil and automobiles ? are desperate to stop the information going online. They claim the statistics will confuse the public and unnecessarily scare people who live close to the factories. Here's another scary thought: Could the EPA be abdicating its responsibility to the environment by throwing it all over to a supposedly active online community...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government plans to force Yasser Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants by freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue. But this strategy may backfire, reports TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "It's meant to scare Arafat into action," says Beyer, "but what it is actually doing is antagonizing him into continued inaction...
...juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade center...