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...unprecedented move, the supervisory board of German engineering giant Siemens AG on Tuesday launched plans to sue 11 former management board executives, including former CEOs Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, over alleged supervisory failings linked to a $2 billion bribes-for-business scandal...
...been going on or if Mr. Mosley had set himself as arbiter of public morals, campaigning against S&M," she says. Instead, she argues, the modest award of $120,000 will protect publications from high-stakes lawsuits from celebrities disgruntled over being photographed on the street. Now when celebrities sue for invasion of privacy, their cases will be compared to Mosley's and most likely draw much lower damages, she says...
...which triggers the release of serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin in the brain and heightens users' feelings of trust and intimacy, even among complete strangers. Concerns that oxytocin might be similarly abused as a recreational drug seem unfounded, however, given that the hormone doesn't produce a high, says zoologist Sue Carter of the University of Illinois at Chicago, who pioneered oxytocin research in voles...
...California. On big screen and small, Ames' warm voice and reassuring manner made him a favorite for roles requiring a paternal touch, from Judy Garland's indulgent turn-of-the century dad in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Kathleen Turner's mystical grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Ames' last screen role. In all, he appeared in more than 100 films. His television work also had a fatherly bent, as in the short-lived series Life with Father and Father of the Bride. His best- known TV role was the neighbor Gordon Kirkwood...
...regulation of greenhouse gases - essentially ignoring the Court's 2007 ruling. The agency claimed that greenhouse gas regulation would lead to too many job losses, and found it wasn't clear that global warming poses a threat to people's health. Given enough time, environmental groups would almost certainly sue to reverse the EPA's ruling, but with the Bush Administration in its last six months, that decision will be handed off to the next Administration. Which is just another reminder of how much will be at stake for the environment - for both parties - when voters go to the polls...