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...renegade project from the beginning. Two years ago, while the rest of Hollywood was trying to capitalize on the teen gross-out craze, Lansing was feeling nostalgic for the old chase formula, which had peaked in 1963 with Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman and a Who's Who of comics in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and hadn't been revisited since Burt Reynolds took to the road in the Cannonball Run flicks some 20 years ago. "I remember those comedies," says Lansing, "and I enjoyed them. I said, 'My God, what happened to that genre?'" Paramount hired...
...discourage layoffs - threatening to forbid them in profitable companies, for example - jobs in France are also disappearing. Alcatel, the big French telecom firm, announced that it will close all but 12 of its 120 manufacturing plants worldwide. Food giant Danone said it was laying off 570 people, while Marks & Spencer, the British department store giant, initially announced it would eliminate 1,700 jobs in France as part of a decision to close all of its stores on the Continent. Now the firm says it may try to find a buyer for its French operations as a last-ditch attempt...
...TIGER SHARK Jesse Spencer, now 18, from the Big Island of Hawaii, was surfing near Kona in October 1999 when a 10-ft. tiger shark came halfway out of the water and pushed him off his board. The shark's nose struck Spencer's head, then its jaws locked onto his arm. "I could almost see the whole shark. My elbow was down his throat." The shark ripped muscles, tendons and blood vessels, then chomped down on the surfboard before finally disappearing. Spencer made it to shore, and today his arm is recovering, although he still cannot grip with...
...replaces Clayton Spencer, who served as acting dean during the Institute’s first days...
...Anytime there's not an immediate problem that's apparent to people it's tough to convince people to think long-term," sniffed Bush before he, Cheney, Gail Norton and Spencer Abraham fanned out across the country Monday. (Bush did not publicly reconsider the wisdom of using a predictably short-term "crisis" to sell the plan in the first place...