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Universal unblocked the serial code and quickly traced the copy to Gonzalez. The studio pushed for the maximum sentence of one year in federal prison, claiming the piracy had cost it an estimated $66 million (a spokeswoman declined to explain how that figure was calculated). Gonzalez now has a job selling cars. He must wear an electronic-monitoring bracelet around his ankle to ensure he goes only to work and then home. "People will come by once in a while," he says, "but I find myself watching TV and playing video games a lot of the time." He says...
...lascivious lead. Nearly every flight attendant has had to deal with such meetings, says a 15-year veteran stewardess for a large Asian airline. "Usually, the people are drunk," she says. Officially, however, airlines pooh-pooh the topic. "Honestly, I have never heard of it happening," says Cathay Pacific spokeswoman Lisa Wong. At KLM, flag carrier for the Netherlands, spokesman Youssef Eddini was taken aback that we even popped the question. "It is simply not allowed," he ruled. Even the spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic?whose owner, Richard Branson, once intimated that he would like to introduce double beds...
Even in the auto industry, with its notoriously high labor costs, a U.S. manufacturer can stay competitive with this combination of flexible operations based close to its customers. "It isn't just about low-cost labor," says Denise Zutz, spokeswoman for Johnson Controls, based in Milwaukee, Wis., and the world's biggest maker of auto parts, with 2003 sales of $23 billion. "It's also about quality of processes and purchasing leverage. You've got to have the attitude that every cost is variable." That attitude has allowed Johnson Controls to weather 15% increases in health-care costs and keep...
...official military spokeswoman in Iraq claims no knowledge of the incident. "I think this is an urban legend," she says. But the full story is yet to be told. A U.S. intelligence official, meanwhile, casts doubt on another widely reported tale: that a U.S. soldier hailed the nemesis of two Commanders in Chief named George Bush by saying: "Regards from President Bush." This person says some officials suspect the story is "apocryphal...
...drop-dead ordering deadlines. Last we checked, there were diamond-stud earrings from Ashford.com a Toffee Trio from Williams-Sonoma and Blister Guard socks from New Balance. (Selection is likely to change day to day. Real-time product updates from the merchants keep the list fresh, says a Yahoo spokeswoman...