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...annually because of E.U. consumer fears about their crops, the U.S. negotiating team was prepared to walk out rather than cede the point. In the end, negotiators agreed to settle for labels that note the shipment may contain some genetically modified material. That particular label may become a common sight on European loading docks; nearly 50 percent of soybeans (and 35 percent of the corn) grown in the U.S. are genetically modified, and that number is bound to rise, especially if this agreement helps to allay consumer fears about modified crops...
...writer alone is almost as frightening a sight as a writer among others, especially at a book party. Paranoia fills the bloodstream. He grows certain that everyone is plotting against him, whereas no one is thinking about him at all. Unable to decide which is more humiliating, he goes for his verbal...
...thrown in jail, but a few months months later, after his release, he began working to persuade Elizabet to join him on a second escape. He also began quietly advertising the trip to others in the relatively prosperous town--at $1,000 a head. And, out of sight, he began patching up an old boat and an Evinrude 50-h.p. outboard motor...
...Nicole Kidman's makeover? Check out 1989's Dead Calm and you'll see a completely different Mrs. Cruise. She looks fat, frumpy! She's got loads of freckles! Her hair is nappy! Now Nicole is deathly pale, skinnier than Calista Flockhart, and there's never a freckle in sight...
...news Wednesday for anyone who's ever panicked at the sight of blue uniforms and flashing red lights. Led by Chief Justice Rehnquist, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that officers can legally stop and question anyone who runs away from a cop and exhibits "nervous, evasive behavior." The case prompting the decision involved a Chicago man who ran after seeing police in an area saturated with drug dealers. Police took off after him, claiming his flight helped to establish "reasonable suspicion" of his involvement in a recent or impending criminal act - and was therefore covered under the legal parameters...