NEWS LITE : `MONA LISA' TO GET HER OWN GALLERY.``Mona Lisa'' finally is getting a room of her own. Officials at the Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. announced Friday that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece would move into its own gallery by 2001. For years, museum officials have struggled to handle the human traffic around ``Mona Lisa'' - the best-known painting in the world - and her mysterious smile. Louvre spokesman Christophe Monin said the $4.2 million gallery will be paid for by a private Japanese network, Nippon Television - the largest corporate gift ever received in France for a cultural project. ``Mona Lisa'' is displayed in the Salle des Etats on the Paris museum's second floor, along with several large paintings from the Italian Renaissance. That space will be divided into two parts to give ``Mona Lisa'' about 2,000 square feet of her own. Officials said the move would increase security and provide better crowd control. Monin said the painting, which is displayed behind bulletproof glass Strictly, bulletproof glass would be glass that is capable of stopping most manner of bullets fired at it. Such glass cannot currently be made in any usable thickness (if at all), so what is loosely called bulletproof glass is, within the industry, referred to as , will be transferred into a temporary display area during the revamping. The final design will be decided through an international architectural competition. There are no plans to restore the painting, which has been in its current spot since 1950. `Soup Nazi' joins shopping network The ``Soup Nazi'' is taking his fame to the Home Shopping Network “HSN” redirects here. For other uses, see HSN (disambiguation). The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. . Al Yeganeh, whose New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of soup business draws long lines In communications, circuits that are capable of handling transmissions over long distances. , came to the network Friday to hawk a new flash-frozen line of gourmet soups. The ``Seinfeld'' episode about a soup seller who cuts off offending customers with a curt ``No soup for you!'' has been hard on him, he said. ``Now people come in all day taking my picture, cars drive by blowing the horns, people calling my name all the time,'' he said. ``It distracts me.'' ``The quality of my soup is dropping, and for me, the quality is my whole life. Jerry Seinfeld This article is about the comedian. For the character, see Jerry Seinfeld (character). Jerry Seinfeld (born Jerome Seinfeld on April 29, 1954 in New York City, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. . . . he destroyed me with that `N' word.'' If the attention is so unbearable, why did Yeganeh agree to the Home Shopping Home Shopping commonly refers to the electronic retailing / home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar companies as HSN, QVC, eBay, ShopNBC, Buy.com, and Amazon.com. appearance? ``It was the only way I could let the whole world have my soups,'' he said. Queen stops by pub for quick frosty frost·y adj. frost·i·er, frost·i·est 1. Producing or characterized by frost; freezing. See Synonyms at cold. 2. Covered with or as if with frost. 3. Silvery white; hoary. 4. one Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth, or Elizabeth, may refer to: Living people
Bohemia The queen's only other known experience with this fundamentally British institution occurred in 1981, when her car got stuck in a snowdrift and she spent an unexpected night at a pub in Gloucestershire. Friday's outing to the Bridge Inn in Devonshire was a well-planned part of the day's progress through this part of southwest England. Hundreds of people turned out at the pink 11th century building to welcome their sovereign. The proprietors gave her a tour, brought the staff out to meet her and handed her a bottle of locally brewed ale. ``That is very kind,'' she replied when given the 101 Ale, specially made to mark the 101 years Caroline Cheffers-Heard's family has run the inn. She took some home to her husband in the trunk of her car. Damon-Ryder match leaves Driver crying Winona Ryder declared that she and Matt Damon are, yep, ``seriously dating.'' But she added that all the talk about her going out a lot is bogus. ``I had like two dates in the last year,'' she said, ``and they weren't with anyone famous. If I was getting all the action they say, I would die.'' Meanwhile, Damon-dumped Minnie Driver got an Oscar night double-dose. She not only didn't win an award but she ran into Ryder and her ex at an after-party. It was too much. She broke into tears in her mom's arms. Kissing champs French it Mark Griswold looked intently into his wife's eyes. He grabbed her arms and pulled her closer. They kissed. And they kissed. And kissed. And kissed some more. They kissed so long - nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. for nearly 29 hours - that Guinness Book of Records officials had long since gone home, saying, ``Call us when it's over.'' Griswold and his wife, Roberta - both ski instructors ski instructor n → instructor(a) m/f de esquí ski instructor n → moniteur/trice de ski ski instructor ski n from Allen Park Allen Park, city (1990 pop. 31,092), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; inc. as a city 1957. Its manufactures include motor vehicle and marine prototypes, liquor, and sheet metal. , Mich. - were one of nine couples to start smooching Wednesday morning at the Harley-Davidson Cafe in New York, hoping to win a spot in the record book and a grand-prize trip to Paris. On Thursday afternoon - after 28 hours, 35 minutes and 23 seconds - the Griswolds were declared the winners of the Longest Kiss Competition. ``What can I say?'' said Roberta Griswold, her chin rubbed red by her husband's day-old beard. ``We're in love. Now we can try to break our record in Paris.'' Runners-up Chike Lamar Carter and Menthia Clark, university students from New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , finally had succumbed to the contest's rigid rules: constant lip contact, constant standing and no bathroom breaks. ``If we'd had just one emergency bathroom pass, I could've gone on for days,'' said Carter, slumped in a chair, with one arm around his girlfriend of two years and the other cradling a jug of Gatorade. At the 25-hour mark, both couples had been awarded trips to Paris by Breath Savers, which sponsored the contest. But they wouldn't quit making out. Nude joyride ends with teens' clothes call A teen-age couple's drive through the city had the makings of an R-rated movie, complete with nudity and a traffic accident. The Tallahassee, Fla., couple was out for a drive without their clothes on and ran into another car. Bystanders discovered Kelsey A. Bowser Bowser may mean:
Bowser, who was pinned in the car, managed to get just her underwear on before waiting for authorities to cut her out, said witness Cynthia Pearson. ``I was standing over the window so she could do what she had to do,'' said Pearson, who was eating at a Chinese restaurant See:
Ferguson, who had been riding in the back seat, had to find his clothes first. He was able to get out of the car. Bowser faces charges of driving while her license is restricted, driving without headlights and having no proof of insurance, said Tallahassee Police Department The Tallahassee Police Department (TPD), provides public safety services for the city of Tallahassee, Florida. History Established in 1841, Tallahassee has the distinction of having the oldest police department in the southern United States and 3rd oldest police spokesman Dan Buie. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Tourists photograph ``Mona Lisa'' as she gazes from behind protective glass at the Louvre. Remy de la Mauviniere/Associated Press (2) YEGANEH (3) ELIZABETH |
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