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Tesauro, a law professor and former advocate general at the European Court of Justice, was named to his post in 1998 and quickly set about giving the Authority real teeth. It helps that the country's current Prime Minister, Giuliano Amato, was Tesauro's predecessor. In the past two years, the Authority has imposed more fines than in the previous eight years combined. Mario Libertini, who teaches industrial law at the University of Rome, says Amato brought tremendous prestige to the Authority, but he notes that the body took on greater force after it started to levy heavy fines...
Most of us don't brush our teeth, have sex or say a kind word about a fellow human as many times a day as we drink a cup of coffee. Small wonder, then, that so many people are so fanatic about making that caffeine-imbibing experience--the smell, the temperature, the taste--as perfect as possible. The truly obsessed will sooner or later try every kind of coffee-brewing technology there is: percolators, plunge pots, Mr. Coffee or Bunn, drip filters made of gold or paper. And still they are unsatisfied...
...matter the ethics involved in pre-teen pop, children around the world still stand in front of their mirrors with pretend-microphones in their hands and dreams of stardom on their minds. Little Aaron Carter is ready to become as big as his brother Nick, and with his adult teeth finally growing in and his sprite blond hair newly cut, he is ready to be more than just "the little prince of pop." But whether his early fame will be an asset or a liability remains to be seen...
Although Bankhead appeared in a few acclaimed films, notably Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, she is now better known for her personality. Her drawled "Hello, Daaaaahling" and her never ending flow of conversation, punctuated by quick draws on a cigarette, became fixtures in the drawing rooms (and bedrooms) of many a London and New York society home. She once bragged about having had over 5,000 lovers, and she was romantically linked to many public figures in her lifetime, including Winston Churchill, Leonard Bernstein and Greta Garbo...
...want taking folic acid to become a habit like brushing your teeth," said SHB president Wendy...