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...always mutual. While trying his special brand of crocodile concupiscence last week at Australia Zoo, 60 miles north of Brisbane, a 13-year-old, 176-lb. female saltwater croc named Toolakea spun on Irwin and removed a juicy morsel from his leg. "She did a huge, big, full-bodied shake," says Irwin, "and as she came down, she sensed my skin and just--chomp--sank her teeth into my leg and did a head shake." Multiple stitches later, Irwin gracefully admitted, "The poor little female was just defending herself." Perhaps if he had understood that 'No means no,' she wouldn...
...franchise that's attained global success by knowing what a child wants," he says. "If I can get women to love me as much as children love Mickey Mouse?and if I can teach you how?is there any business that won't find value in that?" You might shake your head, finding it hard to make the connection with any other business you know. But give Reiji a fistful of yen for a bottle of cognac and a few hours next to you on the banquette, and it will all sound perfectly charming...
...finally, General Colin Powell essentially moved through a receiving line of welcoming senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, many of whom stayed after the hearings to shake the secretary of state-designate's hand and mingle around him like star-struck teenagers. There were a few pointed questions about Powell's take on committing U.S. troops and national missile defense, but for the most part, the queries sounded more like valedictories. "Without question, General Powell's experience at the highest levels of government... makes him well qualified to be secretary of state," enthused Senator Joe Biden. No one doubts Powell...
...decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure of the gun's influential supporters...
...good news was that Americans, long accused of ushering in the culinary apocalypse with their love of supersizing and Shake 'n Bake, were watching TV about real food. But as the network focused on attracting noncooks and stoking its chefs' celebrity, it became harder and harder to find actual cooking on the network. There was Gordon Elliott, doing his version of Tom Green's ambush comedy on Door Knock Dinners; cute Brit Jamie Oliver having dinner with his girlfriend on The Naked Chef; and Jill Cordes and Marc Silverstein doing roving-food-reporter segments on The Best Of. When someone...