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...date with VJ La La and, he says, pretended to be drunk to make the experience feel more like spring break. He rarely goes out, he says, and rarely drinks--never when he's on a set. "I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history." This from the man who made Dude, Where...
Statins, the cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs, are getting a lot of press these days. And, to be sure, they can save lives by dramatically lowering blood levels of LDL, the "bad" cholesterol. But statin drugs are expensive and work only as long as you keep taking them. Also, they can have side effects and should not be taken by people with liver problems...
...pulled out of the auction, saying the price Vivendi now seeks - $14 billion - is too high. MGM reckoned the package was worth no more than $11.5 billion. Two days later, Viacom hinted its interest had waned. That leaves only three bidders, some of which won't pay cash. No wonder Vivendi stock fell over 7% last week. Open Road To Privatization The French government dumped a €1.2 billion stake in Renault, reducing its holding in the carmaker to 15%. Lawmakers then waved through a draft bill allowing the state's share in former monopoly France...
...some members of the Ghanaian community, which has been helping her to get back on her feet, wonder why it took more than a year for Okyere to get the care she needed to get off the street...
...been well-received by the West Africans. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo told the BBC, "If your house is on fire and somebody says: 'Here I am. I have my fire engine. Now when you put your fire out on your house, I will come in.' I wonder what sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult to insist on playing second fiddle. Once U.S. troops are off the coast...