Fri 15 Aug 2003
ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer , reports:
PARIS (AP) - Gravediggers were called back to work on a national holiday Friday to deal with the grim aftermath of a heat wave that left up to 3,000 dead in France.
With morgues full, authorities took over the vast storeroom of a Paris farmers’ market or kept bodies in refrigerated tents - as temperatures subsided throughout Europe, ending one of the most severe periods of intense heat on record across the continent.
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Fri 15 Aug 2003
Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY, reports:
Dalai Lama’s image enlightens SalesForce.com publicity pitch
SAN FRANCISCO In a publicity pitch that approaches if not tops the most audacious of the dot-com boom, software maker SalesForce.com is enlisting no less than the Dalai Lama.
On a poster with the Tibetan leader in meditative pose, it says it’s celebrating SalesForce.com’s 100,000 “enlightened subscribers who have been freed from the boundaries of software.” The Dalai Lama sits below the headline: “There is no software on the path to enlightenment.”
SalesForce.com, perhaps the first successful Web services company to emerge from the dot-com crash, bought 500 tickets to a speech the Dalai Lama is giving in San Francisco. Afterward, it’s throwing a Tibet-themed party. Entertainment includes former Tibetan monk Robert Thurman the father of actress Uma Thurman and 1980s cover band Tainted Love.
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