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Welcome to the wild world of asbestos litigation. For all the lives asbestos has destroyed over the years, only now is it becoming clear how much additional ruin personal-injury lawyers caused by taking advantage of hapless plaintiffs and of the emotionally charged debate over corporate responsibility for unleashing the deadly substance. The first asbestos suits were filed in the 1970s and by 1982 had pushed Johns-Manville, the largest manufacturer, into bankruptcy. Wave after wave followed, forcing more than 50 companies into Chapter 11, including Owens-Corning and, last year, chemical and materials giant W.R. Grace...
...collaborate with the giants of Asian cinema, Chen Kaige (Temptress Moon) and more recently Zhang Yimou (Hero), but it is with Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai that Doyle made his mark?and look: hand-held, jump-cut and radically chic. That began with Days of Being Wild (1991) and, six films later, found sublime perfection with In the Mood for Love (2000). Here, what began life as a comedy evolved, over 15 months of improvization and reshooting, into a masterpiece of slowly condensing passion. "A Wong Kar-wai film is kind of like cooking school," says Doyle with...
...wildfire popularity of online gaming, shopping and stock trading?that is creating markets where none previously existed. These days, nobody would dream of visiting a chat room in the default get-up. Freechai's male customers are a bit conservative, says Ryou, but women like to go wild, taking fashion dares they wouldn't risk on a real boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when she logs on: "People want their avatars to be flashier than they...
...Minister Tony Blair, who never met an American President he didn't like, howled at the "unacceptable and wrong" measures. European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy resorted, as Europeans so often do when the Americans baffle them, to cowboy clichés. "The world steel market is not the Wild West where everyone can do as he pleases," he said. "There are rules...
...Five spoons dip into the pot, but how many spoonfuls are there?" mused a caviar exporter quoted by an official of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES. Holding those spoons as they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy...