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...heat on tobacco shows no sign of lessening. With 22 states in the fray so far, others are certain to join in. And companies face more than a dozen private class-action suits and hundreds of individual lawsuits. At the same time, cigarette makers--minus Liggett--will soon troop to court in Greensboro, North Carolina, to hear a judge's decision on whether to allow new fda rules that say tobacco billboards must be at least 1,000 ft. from schools and that require young smokers to show photo...
Here's a sign the economy may be in real trouble: the baby boomers, legendary for their spending and borrowing, are slipping into debt hell. And at least one major credit-card company is starting to feel the heat. Advanta, the nation's ninth largest issuer of plastic, stunned Wall Street last week by forecasting a loss of $20 million in the first quarter. The company relies on a computer model to pick more affluent customers, who are offered a large credit line and teaser rates as low as 5.9%. The result: the number of cardholders jumped from 2 million...
...unscientific but tantalizing theory is that Hollywood movies are serving as how-to manuals. Authorities point to the 1996 De Niro-Pacino vehicle Heat, which one of the robbers in the North Hollywood shoot-out had repeatedly watched. In Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, a gang of women successfully robs several banks. Police in Durham noted that the language used in one local robbery was similar to that in the film. "These things are media induced," contends Dallas FBI agent John Skillestad. "Hollywood is portraying bank robberies and glamourizing them...
...Knicks barely edged out the Heat for the Atlantic Division title and all the glory of not getting Chicago until the third round of the playoffs that accompanies...
...into the plant's spent-fuel storage pool even though the pool, crowded with thousands of old fuel rods, was licensed to handle the full core only on an emergency basis. To save precious off-line minutes, Northeast would start moving the fuel so quickly after shutdown that the heat melted a worker's protective boots...