Risks That Make News
Date: 31 July 1999
By Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger
Op-Ed article by Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, says death of 19 people on canyoning expedition in Switzerland received overwhelmingly more news coverage than death of 104 workers in a recent accident in a South Africa gold mine because the canyoneers had a choice about what they were doing and the miners did not; says people of privileged societies have removed most of the risk from their lives and therefore have to seek it out, while societies that are not privileged must live with risks they would rather avoid (M)
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Vendor of News From Afar Yields to Technology
Date: 31 July 1999
By Leslie Eaton
Leslie Eaton
Hotalings News Agency closes store it has run in Times Square since 1926, retrenching to kiosk inside tourist information center on Broadway near 46th Street; photo; venerable purveyor of newspapers and magazines from around the world falls victim to Internet and its immediate access to information (S)
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Journal; The Fast Friends of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Date: 31 July 1999
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich column deplores excessive media coverage of the death of John F Kennedy Jr and especially the personal reminiscences of people in the media claiming to be close friends of his (M)
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Hong Kong Journal; A Free-Spoken Editor Won't Be Back
Date: 31 July 1999
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Jonathan Fenby fails to have his contract renewed as editor of South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper; newspaper's sharp criticism of Hong Kong Government may be reason for his ouster; paper is owned by Robert Kuok of Malaysia; photo (M)
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Ideas & Trends; 'Rages' Maybe Aren't What They're Cracked Up to Be
Date: 01 August 1999
By Pam Belluck
Pam Belluck
Researchers are skeptical about reported increases in what have been dubbed acts of 'workplace rage,' 'road rage,' 'air rage' and other rages; say statistics do not show any increase in incidents; say perception is that they are on increase because they get wide publicity in part because of television news, which thrives on showing chilling footage of each new act of public rage, and because politicians and others use them to advance their own agendas; photos (M)
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The Best From 1 to 100, And Subject to Debate
Date: 01 August 1999
By Mike Freeman
Mike Freeman
New book, Sporting News Selects Football's 100 Gre8
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OAK TECHNOLOGY AGREES TO AQUIRE XIONICS
Date: 31 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oak Technology Inc agrees to purchase Xionics Document Technologies Inc for about $70.2 million in cash and stock (S)
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COCA-COLA COMPLETES PURCHASE OF CADBURY UNIT
Date: 31 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Coca-Cola completes acquisition of Cadbury Schweppes PLC's soda unit in 155 countries for $700 million (S)
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ENTERGY WILL BUY BACK $750 MILLION OF COMMON STOCK
Date: 31 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entergy Corp plans to buy back as much as $750 million in common stock, or about 10 percent of shares outstanding (S)
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LIBERTY MEDIA GROUP TO ACQUIRE CONTROL OF TODD-AO
Date: 31 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Liberty Media Group agrees to acquire control of Todd-AO Corp, video- and sound-editing studio, for about $92.5 million in stock (S)
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