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...tight race will break to the one who does the best job of caulking the cracks in her base. Before the election, Republican Governor Mike Foster (who was supporting Cooksey) railed at Terrell for engaging in "class warfare" because of a negative ad she ran around the clock for weeks that claimed Landrieu had lost touch with Louisiana values because she lives in a million-dollar mansion in Washington. Landrieu's row house next to a dry cleaner on a major thoroughfare might be worth a million--Washington real estate is absurd--but it's surely not worth more than...
...only outlawed the sale and advertising of tobacco products but also divested the university's interest in tobacco stocks. "Colleges are finally hopping on the clean-air boat," says Lori Fresina, director of the American Cancer Society's Smoke-Free New England. "That's because their new customer base is enlightened students coming from predominantly smoke-free environments. In many cases, it's the students leading administrators...
...less-receptive consumer add another complication: cut-throat competition. In an effort to grab market share, China Mobile and China Unicom are already circumventing government price regulations through handset subsidies and other backdoor give-backs. According to CSFB analysts, China Unicom even appears to be cannibalizing its existing customer base of GSM subscribers because of incentives designed to attract users to its new high-speed wireless network, based on a transmission technology called CDMA...
...boarding boats for searches off southern Thailand. Even the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has left nothing to chance. In late December more than 24,000 scouts will arrive in Thailand to take part in the 20th World Scout Jamboree, to be held at a naval base. More than 1,000 officers from Thailand's army, navy and police force will provide security during the two-week long Jamboree. "Though we do not consider it very likely, we have done our utmost to prevent a terrorist attack," says Lutz Kuhnen, assistant director of WOSM's risk-management unit...
...tight race will break to the one who does the best job of caulking the cracks in her base. Before the election, Republican Governor Mike Foster (who was supporting Cooksey) railed at Terrell for engaging in "class warfare" because of a negative ad she ran around the clock for weeks that claimed Landrieu had lost touch with Louisiana values because she lives in a million-dollar mansion in Washington. Landrieu's row house next to a dry cleaner on a major thoroughfare might be worth a million - Washington real estate is absurd - but it's surely not worth more than...