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SOUPY SALES, comedian: You just go with it. The whole thing is attitude, but if you can close your eyes right before it hits you, that's good. I've taken over 20,000 pies; I used to look like Cary Grant. Different groups around the country have asked me to hit people with a pie and I say no. I'll get sued...
...care what the government tells you to eat, but you can bet that the $640 billion-a-year food industry pays close attention. So a lot of behind-the-scenes squabbling preceded last week's release by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services of a new set of 10 national nutrition guidelines...
...This promises to be a close race. Negative campaigning works - and may come to seem the only effective way to try to win the undecided voters, the McCain types who will be decisive. Both candidates know how to play rough, and both of them, I suspect, are persuaded that you cannot win without ruthlessness. The Marquis of Queensberry is for losers. George W. Bush imitates his father in almost all things; in 1988 Bush the elder hit Michael Dukakis with a number of rabbit punches - the Willie Horton business, for example...
...music-industry bigfoots tiptoe trepidatiously into the digital age, they're obeying an old rule: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Witness Warner Music (corporate cousin of TIME.com) and BMG's settlement Thursday with their old young nemesis, MP3.com, over copyright infringements. The free-music upstart that wanted to turn the industry on its ear is now in bed with two of the industry's Big Five (the rest are expected to follow soon). The outlaw has been deputized. "Whenever the record industry sues someone, you know they're then going to make a deal," says TIME Digital...
...cued by satellites whenever a SCUD was fired, giving it a minute or two's advanced warning of incoming," notes Thompson. Missiles fired from Iraq, separated from Israel by Jordan, had to travel some 300 miles before reaching Tel Aviv, whereas Hezbollah is able to deploy its Katyushas close to the border. "This system won't have much advanced warning, which makes its task that much more challenging. Then again, it has the advantage of speed, attacking its target with a sustained beam that travels at the speed of light rather than trying to hit a bullet with another bullet...