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...Grease revival. This was not her G-rated TV chat show, which ran for six years and won her the sobriquet the Queen of Nice from Newsweek. This was New York State Supreme Court, and last week O'Donnell was testifying as the defendant in a $100 million suit brought by Gruner+Jahr USA, publisher of the short-lived monthly Rosie. The charge, as articulated by G+J CEO Daniel Brewster Jr.: she "walked away from her obligations" after a battle over editorial control of the magazine. O'Donnell has countersued for $125 million, charging that, by cutting...
...Donnell had a complex role to play when it was her turn to testify. She began jauntily, saying she had launched "a full-figured Rosie doll with thighs twice as big as Barbie's." Judge Ira Gammerman, who kept Woody Allen from getting too hilarious in a civil suit last year, and whom court watchers call the Director, admonished O'Donnell to "try not to editorialize...
Need a helping hand to lift heavy objects around the house or yard? The Power Assist Suit, developed by a professor at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, is a computer-controlled system that uses air pressure to augment your strength. In tests, a 100-lb. woman wearing one was able to lift a 150-lb. man. As you bend your arms and legs to start lifting, sensors on the suit detect which muscles are being used and activate a battery-powered air pump, which in turn inflates a series of air bags on the suit. As the bags...
...Brazil may be guilty of its own unreasonable demands. These include its insistence that areas like investment, intellectual property and government procurement be left out of ftaa talks - or, as Amorim says, made "more flexible, so some countries can opt out now and opt in later on" to suit their particular development needs. Given the Western Hemisphere's stark developmental disparities, he says, "you can't have a one-size-fits-all" ftaa. Connolly and other experts call that bunk. "You can't treat a free-trade agreement like a Chinese menu," says a Latin diplomat involved in the negotiations...
...songs from amongst hundreds of thousands and watching as it takes the few seconds to arrive on your computer—and the smugness of knowing that the RIAA can do nothing. But the thrill is tempered by the feeling of having given in to The Man in the suit. Once you start paying for your music downloads, it’s all downhill—you might as well take out a mortgage and buy a Volvo...