Saturday, May 08, 2004
Legal experts warn that more lawsuits against fast food chains could be on the horizon. Meanwhile, movie goers will be able to see the effects of dieting on fast food on the big screen.
From Yahoo! News - (USA TODAY), "A controversial obesity lawsuit against McDonald's may have been thrown out of court. But it inspired the movie Super Size Me, which opens Friday and promises to raise the volume in the debate over fast food and obesity.
In September, a federal judge in New York rejected a claim by two obese teenage girls that eating McDonald's made them fat. Morgan Spurlock, the movie's director decided to test that conclusion. His film documents a 30-day immersion into McDonald's-only cuisine in which he gained 24 1/2 pounds and his liver accumulated fat so quickly that it turned, in the words of his doctor, into "pt." He has since regained his health.
Spurlock wants his movie to launch a national conversation over fast food and nutrition, not prompt more litigation. But it may be too late. Now that obesity is recognized by the federal government as a looming public health crisis - on its way to surpassing smoking as the nation's No. 1 killer - the battle lines are drawn."
"Although no fast food lawsuits have been filed since the McDonald's case was dismissed, legal experts say they expect suits to be filed this year. The most promising legal avenue is to invoke state consumer protection laws to accuse companies of misleading consumers about calories or nutritional value, or to accuse companies of marketing fast food to children."
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Sunday, May 02, 2004
Apparently the M.P.'s are cracking down on Marines stationed on Okinawa doing their best Need For Speed: Underground imitations with real cars.
From Stars & Stripes, "'The most popular cars are Nissan Skylines and Toyota Supras — lightweight sports cars with manual transmissions,' the master sergeant said. 'On the busiest night we were out, there was a good-sized crowd, maybe a third of them Americans — 16 vehicles with Y-plates and 73 spectators.' Most apparently got the message that the MPs were on their case. On a recent Sunday, not a Y-plated car or American was to be found at the high-speed skids that showered spectators with atomized rubber. A few cars twirled out of control, coming to a stop just inches from parked cars. They recovered and quickly sped back on the course."
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Al on 05/02 at 04:27 PM
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Saturday, May 01, 2004
Classic games like Pong, Joust and Frogger brought about a new era in the world of entertainment. Many of us spent countless hours (and countless quarters) playing these game trying to immortalize our initials as the "Highest Score." Recently, a group in New York has thought of a way to revive the aging classic Pac-Man.
A group from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program have decided to take gaming to the next level. Dubbed Pac Manhattan, the group use the street layout and Washington Square Park in Manhattan to recreate the game layout and monitor each other by use of GPS, cell phone, and a vast array other technology. Don't you wish all classes in college were this fun?
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Enrique Santos and co-host Joe Ferrero, hosts of a Miami radio show are being fined by the FCC for prank calling Cuban President Fidel Castro for $4000. In response to this decision, the talk show host vow to pay the fine... with 400,000 pennies.
From Yahoo! News- MIAMI (Reuters), "Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero will pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) in Washington.
'We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He's a violator of human rights and they're fining us $4,000,' Santos said on Tuesday. 'We just find it absurd.'
Santos and Ferrero host 'El Vacilon de la Manana,' or 'The Morning Joker,' show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM in Miami."
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From Yahoo! News- TEHRAN (Reuters), "Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported."
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