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...Damian's birth. Meanwhile, Hugh Grant is trying desperately to impregnate himself Losers DAVID BECKHAM England's top footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting injured before Summer Slam ED MCMAHON Carson sidekick's house infected with toxic mold. McMahon said he would never have known the mold was toxic from the way it tasted MICHAEL OVITZ Hollywood talent czar loses his best account: Robin Williams. His second-best account: Father Hands-to-Himself, the non-molesting priest...
...GROUP, a Canadian funeral conglomerate, wants the U.S. government to pay $725 million in damages because a Mississippi jury harbored what Loewen claims were "anti-Canadian, racial and class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta-based firm...
...USCIB's Canner calls investor rights "leveling the playing field." But if the global field is leveled, can Mississippi punish fraud? Can Canada subsidize its postal service? Can Mexican towns ban toxic waste? These questions go to the heart of the debate over globalization. And they're being decided right now, behind closed doors...
...some form of jungle justice may have been meted out to Brother Number One after all. Thailand's Army Commander in Chief General Surayud Chulanont claimed last week he had evidence Pol Pot had actually been poisoned. According to Surayud, intelligence and autopsy reports suggest there were traces of toxic chemicals in Pol Pot's internal organs. His remains were never subjected to a formal autopsy-Khmer Rouge guerrillas cremated Pol Pot's body shortly after he expired. But, to establish conclusively that the corpse was in fact the man responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians, Thai army...
Although Goyette does not offer exact figures for these costs, he says that, for example, the discovery of toxic waste on the site could double or triple development costs. Considering that the University’s land in Allston contains old railroad property, some sort of contamination is almost ensured...