Word: steels
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...Soon, Abe will need to find some steel. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is now led by Ichiro Ozawa, an ex-LDP leader and veteran of the long campaign to shake up Japanese politics. There will be elections for the Diet's upper house next summer, and Ozawa has few equals as a campaigner. He has been courting politicians in the countryside, where the LDP's stranglehold on power has been eroded by Koizumi's reforms. "We have a great chance to challenge the LDP, especially in the rural areas," says Takeaki Matsumoto, the DPJ's policy chair...
...sign of the apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel. Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton, Donald Trump and Sean (Diddy) Combs also have their own celebrity scents...
...subject of movie gossip. That talk has always been minor - we're not discussing the industrial-strength suppositions impressionable people have created around the similar passing of Marilyn Monroe - yet it has also been persistent. That's because of the crude, inherent irony in it. Neither the Man of Steel nor the man playing him is supposed to have a rubbery psyche. Indeed, he's not supposed to have a psyche...
...scan they realized there was something wrong. I have serious lung problems. I retired in 2002, but then came back to the department as a consultant. On Sept. 11 we'd been unable to communicate with the radios we had in the Trade Center because of all the steel and concrete. I invented a radio, the Command Post Radio, that's powerful enough to work in a high-rise or in the subway, but is still portable...
...steel-clad shell and huge size make it look more otherworldly to newcomer Matt Leinart. "It looks like a big spaceship to me," says the rookie quarterback-in-training, who just signed with the National Football League's biggest losers. With just one play-off victory since winning the championship in 1947, as the Chicago Cardinals, the St. Louis--now--Arizona Cardinals are in the midst of the longest play-off dry spell in the league. The Cardinals have also set the records for the lowest attendance and revenues in the NFL. Now the Bidwill family, which has owned...