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How the West Was WonkedGore & Co. Saddle Up For Silicon Valley Washington Post, August 1, 2005 Al Gore has been reincarnated. Gone are the stuffy suits and ties. These days you're more likely to spot him in a hip, open-at-the-collar, all-black ensemble. Gone also is the wooden, almost mechanical personality. He's all smiles and jokes with his new clique of beautiful twenty- and thirty-somethings.
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Ling, a 28-year-old who also heads Current's "vanguard journalism" division, the group that will produce some segments, said the company is very "caj" (casual) and that among the best parts about it is that practically everyone who works there is in the same demographic as the target audience.
Gore, Hyatt, 55, and programming chief David Neuman, 44, a former executive at NBC, Channel One, Disney and CNN, are the cool older-brother figures in the company. They try to create a fun, laid-back atmosphere in the offices and studios by doing things such as stocking a snack station with free Skittles and Fritos.http://snipurl.com/gniqIf you need to lead the vanguard Lose the suit to win their regard. To become all the rage Of kids half your age Be caj. It's really not hard.
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Publicity stunts the latest trend in Bollywood IANS [IndiaGlitz.com], Monday, July 18, 2005 Whether the Salman and Aishwarya controversy is a publicity gimmick or not may never be known but there is no doubt that Bollywood seems to be getting bolder with its publicity stunts.
Such stunts in Hollywood are a given. So much so that Tam Cruise's declaration of love for Kate Holmes was met with severe scepticism as both actors had films ready for release.http://snipurl.com/gnvlIf you've got a movie to flout Cause a stir just before it comes out. Bend down on one knee - "Marry me, Katie!"And the box office will soar, no doubt. Bacall: Cruise is sickBy Richard Simpson, Daily Mail 2 August 2005 'It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. I think it's kind of a sickness.'
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The actor, who remained fiercely private throughout his 11-year marriage to Nicole Kidman, has been ridiculed for the energetic way in which he has used his relationship with Miss Holmes to win coverage for War Of The Worlds. http://snipurl.com/gnvy
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St.-Tropez à Go-Go New York Times, Travel, July 31, 2005 By the time Mick and Bianca Jagger tied the knot at the Chapel of St.-Anne in 1971, the place's notorious indulgences had cemented its reputation as St. Trop: St. Too Much, in French.
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For hedonism, Nikki Beach's only serious competitor is La Voile Rouge, a beach club famed for Champagne-spraying free-for-alls that make most World Series celebrations look like a kiddie party at Chuck E. Cheese's. Anecdotes are legion about rich industrialists buying bottles and bottles of Dom Pérignon ($1,350) that ultimately wind up in the hair of near-naked young women and other beachgoers.http://snipurl.com/gohhSt. Tropez is Mt. Olympus in excess - Baccanalian, pleasure-seeking, glam undress. Spray champagne, dance and play, Nikki Beach is 'hot' all day. They say "St. Trop" is "St. too much". It's never less.
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The world is moving to an Internet-based platform for commerce, education, innovation and entertainment. Wealth and productivity will go to those countries or companies that get more of their innovators, educators, students, workers and suppliers connected to this platform via computers, phones and P.D.A.'s.
A new generation of politicians is waking up to this issue. For instance, Andrew Rasiej is running in New York City's Democratic primary for public advocate on a platform calling for wireless (Wi-Fi) and cellphone Internet access from every home, business and school in the city.
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Mr. Rasiej wants to see New York follow Philadelphia, which decided it wouldn't wait for private companies to provide connectivity to all. Instead, Philly made it a city-led project - like sewers and electricity. The whole city will be a "hot zone," where any resident anywhere with a computer, cellphone or P.D.A. will have cheap high-speed Wi-Fi access to the Internet.Calling All LudditesBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times, August 3, 2005 http://snipurl.com/goorA hot zone is not what some expect. It's not a neighborhood of prurient disrespect. It's just a zone where you can get Free access to the Net To chat or hook up with a hot prospect.
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tsuwm introduced a misnomered "worthless word" this week: "nelipot".
"Nelipot" doesn't appear in a leading newspaper [as far as I know], but it still deserves notice in The Limerick News. So here goes:
Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park"
"What a classic!", a ubiquitous remark.
But what would it be
If fans were to see
"Nelipot in the Park"? How stark!
nelipot
[fr. Gk. nelipous (nelipodos): unshod, barefooted]
/NEL i pot//
someone who walks about barefooted [per tsuwm]
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Beating Hurdles, Scientists Clone a Dog for a FirstNew York Times, August 4, 2005 Dogs have such an unusual reproductive biology, far more so than humans, scientists say, that the methods that allowed cloning of sheep, mice, cows, goats, pigs, rabbits, cats, a mule, a horse and three rats, and creation of cloned human embryos for stem cells, simply do not work with them.
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[Snuppy.] Not Snoopy. The scientists named him for Seoul National University puppy.
Cloning researchers were awed at the achievement, but not everyone shared their admiration. http://snipurl.com/gpnrPigs and sheep, a horse and a cow They've all been cloned, but up until now, A dog stumped them all. Now a clone which they call, Snuppy, is barking bow wow.
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Here's one side of the story: [By the way, "Snuppy" stands for "Snuppy — short for Seoul National University Puppy] First Cloned Dog Is a One-in-a-Thousand SuccessLos Angeles Times, August 4, 2005 Hwang said his group's primary aim was to develop genetically identical laboratory dogs for the study of animal and human diseases.
"With the promise of using a homogenous population of cloned dogs, maladies such as hypertension, diabetes, breast cancer or genetic disorders like congenital cardiac defect can be studied more efficiently," said Hwang, whose lab was the first to clone human embryos last year.http://snipurl.com/gq8u
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Novak Walks Off Live CNN ProgramNew York Times, August 5, 2005 Though Mr. Novak's walk-off was extreme, the sparring between him and Mr. Carville was hardly unusual. For years, their disagreements had been a staple of "Crossfire," a program on which they were part of a rotating panel of debaters.
In January, the president of CNN's domestic networks, Jonathan Klein, announced his intention to cancel "Crossfire" because it and other such programs relied on "head butting debate."http://snipurl.com/gqkcWhat would you expect of a show called "Crossfire" If the talk was so boring it could never inspire Serious head butting - Not clucking or tutting But bruising berating setting the ratings on fire.
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McBoathouse Roils the LakeNew York Times, August 4, 2005 ON Lake Rabun in North Georgia, the social equivalent of "Where are you from?" or "What do you do?" is "Where do you keep your boat?"
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Garagelike slips have become pavilions and are now becoming full-blown follies, more likely to cost $100,000 than the $30,000 or $40,000 spent five years ago, according to local contractors. The boat shed, where the rich of a different era let their runabouts quietly rock, has given way to the big statement.
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Naysayers, who tend to align themselves with the old money on the lakes, especially on Rabun, which was called "Lake Superior" in an Atlanta newspaper recently, have not slowed the McMansion development. Real estate prices are now routinely in the millions, and prices for lots or tear-down properties crossed the million-dollar mark in the last year.
Nor have they discouraged the expensive bark siding, wrought iron, stone fireplaces and copper roofs that embellish the newer boathouses and boathouse renovations, usually in the style of the Adirondack, Tudor or Just Plain Big houses they complement.http://snipurl.com/grd9What good is a trophy not on display? If trees hide your mansion o'erlooking the bay Build a McBoathouseJust as big as a house. That's the way to scream "MONEY!". What better way?
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Avian Flu Vaccine Called Effective in Human TestingNew York Times, August 7, 2005 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - Government scientists say they have successfully tested in people a vaccine that they believe can protect against the strain of avian influenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia.
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Dr. Fauci has said that tests so far had shown that the new vaccine produced a strong immune response among the small group of healthy adults under age 65 who volunteered to receive it, although the doses needed were higher than in the standard influenza vaccine offered each year. The vaccine, developed with genetic engineering techniques, is intended to protect against infection, not to treat those who are sick.http://snipurl.com/grxe
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