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Well, Richard may be the Machiavellian (and not a little Malkovichian) puppetmaster of "Survivor," and he's certainly holding the show together entertainment-wise with his catty punditry and villainous wit. But he's still just a plump (but getting thinner) guy who likes to walk around naked - in other words, he's just one man, and for him the Tribal Council's expulsion of Greg on Wednesday must have carried a disturbing amount of unpredictability. (Best exit yet, by the way. Leaves with a "Jerk" impression, and then eschews CBS press tour...
...might have thought the new, as yet unnamed Sony PDA was the sixth Backstreet Boy for all the attention lavished on it. Built to run Palm software, the new Sony (exhibited under glass--no touching, please) is thinner and lighter than other Palm devices and, with its sleek, brushed-metal finish, quite a bit sexier. It's also rumored to include brand- new entertainment and digital imaging features, but Sony was cagy about the details. Look for it on catwalks early this fall...
...other states, the brand-name companies have retained the upper hand. DuPont's allies in Florida, for instance, killed this year's effort by its rival Barr to let pharmacists substitute generics, including its blood thinner warfarin, for four brand-name drugs unless a doctor objects. Minutes after the state senate passed a bill backing Barr's plan in April, a flotilla of DuPont lobbyists converged on Speaker John Thrasher's office. Thrasher had earlier asked Republicans studying the bill to oppose it. Now he refused to let it come up for a vote. With the clock running, allies...
...nearly as long as the Sunshine State has attracted retirees, it has been a rich market for DuPont Pharmaceuticals. The company sells close to $50 million of its blood thinner Coumadin to heart and stroke patients in Florida each year, and it had the market all to itself until 1997. Then the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Barr Laboratories' generic version, and suddenly DuPont's monopoly was threatened...
...medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous--famous for being fat or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...