Corporate-funded mini-moguls rub shoulders with self-financing scrappers during the ceremony on the beach in Santa Monica. They were designed to make sure Philip Morris was seen as "a company worth respecting."Justice Department lawyer Sharon Eubanks cast the changes in a more cynical light.Eubanks referred to a 1999 memo written by a Philip Morris executive that attached comments from Wall Street analysts, who praised the new strategy because it would help change the company's image with the public and soothe juries weighing sick-smoker cases."It's fair to say that this analyst was looking at the website as a public relations stunt, right?" Eubanks asked Szymanczyk, referring to one of the analyst's comments."I don't know. Muranaka Farm managers "were stunned by it because there was no wind," he said "We have no idea how it occurred. Fortunately, the mother bear and her cubs totally ignored me while I shivered in the 40-degree October air for half an hour -- clinging to the upper boughs of the tiny tree, blue and bleeding like some large species of silly bird. Because each designer's vision is meant to be different from competitors', the factory workers must take great care to get the tiniest details right.On a recent day, things are going very well, according to the cigarette-puffing Frenchmen who manage the Janis brand for Taverniti.The 50,000-square-foot plant looks more like a quarry dock than the womb of high-cost fashion. If you're tired, you won't be able to appreciate the pleasures presented to you at the table.* Bathe and dress for dinner, stylishly but comfortably so your stomach can expand. CHICAGO   President Bush signed the $286.5-billion transportation bill Wednesday, saying it would ease traffic congestion throughout the country, create hundreds of thousands of jobs and impose stricter vehicular safety standards that would save lives.But critics said the legislation was stuffed with unnecessary and expensive projects that benefited only members of Congress seeking hometown support.In California, the measure will fund more than 350 transportation projects, including the completion of highway interchanges and the construction of bicycle paths.The six-year bill, the first major transportation spending measure since 1998, pays for projects from fiscal years 2004 through 2009 The previous highway bill expired Sept. Bostich, the group's unofficial leader, says that he would like to bring some of the musicians on tour with him but that it would be a logistical nightmare. So here is another: Nicklaus' 10th major title was the 1972 Masters, which he won when he was 32.The only other player with 10 or more major titles is Walter Hagen, who had 11.In the end, Woods' 10th will go down as one of his most serene, although it really wasn't, despite his margin of victory. They were finalized ahead of schedule to meet California's timetable.Zach Hall, the interim president of the state's stem cell agency and a former head of one of the National Institutes of Health, said therapeutic cloning should be a top research priority once research grants are made.To get cloned human stem cell lines, an egg is stripped of its genetic material and the DNA of a donor is inserted. "Here you can't walk a block without someone doing avant-garde theater in a shoebox. These are the same barrels used in Cognac production, and the finished rum exhibits Cognac's oxidized, nutty background flavor known as rancio. The two men switched to the pro-Moscow side when Russian forces returned to Chechnya in 1999, launching the second Chechnya war. Instead, they speculated that the explanation might be related to unmarried people having fewer social connections. He later became director of litigation for the Bank of America.He left that post in 1992 to become a private arbitrator. But they said none of the former militia fighters had graduated from the program or been integrated into their forces."We haven't given them their guns back," Robow Ali said. It may not be as nuanced as drinking wine, beer or spirits -- but it's in the ballpark. It has more in common with brawny seagoing cities such as Providence, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass. He even said that, even if he wins, he might be willing to allow mayoral control to be retired if it is eventually found not to be working.Of the many issues involved, one of the thorniest is the fate of the current school board if Villaraigosa wins."If ... Skilling won't feature audiotapes of Enron traders discussing how they gamed California's power system for high profit when the state was plagued by rolling blackouts and skyrocketing power prices in 2000 and 2001, a judge ruled Thursday.U.S. Numbers prove nothing unless you understand the underlying social context.Bigotry is real, but fighting it purely by the numbers is moronic Right, Professor Jacoby?. But he was deprived of his Starbucks fix: There aren't any corporate-owned stores in Kearney, 126 miles west of Lincoln.Tangeman wants to complete "Starbucking" by the end of the year so he can submit it to the Sundance Film Festival.