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...Equal Opportunity Commission order to -- gasp -- hire men to work alongside the Hooters girls, McNeil struck back with a Washington news conference-cum-pep rally designed to protest the decision. Fighting for its corporate life as well as the right to burgers served by waitresses in extremely tight tank tops, the company has taken out full-page ads featuring a swarthy man wearing the distinctive Hooters uniforms in several national newspapers. The 170-restaurant chain plans to spend $1 million in advertising to protest the EEOC decision...
Huffington has evolved from political wife to policy entrepreneur, a one-woman think tank with more clout than her husband Michael--an oil-company heir and former California Congressman--ever dreamed of. In one year, she has won her own weekly cable-TV talk show, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, testified twice before Congress and become a "senior fellow" at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess...
...Holsteins are trapped in their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower hunter. A sad fate for a virtuous creature who lets down her milk twice a day and never is a problem to anybody...
...very, very popular. What Bennett is essentially trying to do is get people to vote them off the air by turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example...
...Cowan used a nuclear reactor that spewed out trillions of neutrinos every second. With so many particles, they reasoned, observed over a long enough period of time (it ended up being years), they should be able to measure at least a few neutrino impacts in their detector, a tank of chemical-tinged water...