Week In Review July 10
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The document summarizes various news stories from the week of July 10, including: the popularity of Old Spice commercials but declining sales of the featured product; Roman Polanski being declared a free man by Switzerland; Mel Gibson using ethnic slurs in an argument; the death of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; film director David Lynch attempting to crowdfund a documentary; and a court ruling the FCC's indecency policy as too vague. It also asks "What came first?" and answers that chickens came before eggs.
Week In Review July 10
- 2. Week in Review (July 10) ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 3. For your viewing pleasure. Master Yoda What does it mean? Farewell ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 4. Old Spice ¡°The Man Your Man Could Smell Like¡± spots have blown up since they were launched during the Super Bowl, racking up almost 13 million views on YouTube. This past week, the YouTube page was update with 180+ personal video messages from Isaiah Mustafa thanking people who posted messages about him. But in the 52 weeks ended June 13, sales of the featured product, Red Zone After Hours Body Wash, have dropped 7%, reported by SymphonyIRI. ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 5. Roman Polanski released The Swiss government declared Polanski a free man on monday after rejecting a US request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13 year old girl. ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 6. Mel Gibson does it again The infamous actor has been caught using yet again uses ethnic slurs while going on a crazed rampage during an argument with Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his eight month-old daughter Lucia. ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 7. George Steinbrenner dies at age 80 Longtime Yankees owner, died on Tuesday of a heart attack. ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 8. David Lynch trying ¡°crowd funding¡± Famed director of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, is asking for his fans to donate $50 to a documentary about his life and work. ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 9. Court Rules the FCC¡¯s Indecency Policy...Indecent The appeals court found ¡°indecent speech¡± to be a vague enough category to impinge on free speech, ruling ¡°the FCC effectively chills speech because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive.¡± ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 10. Scandal of the Week ? 2010 Sullivan Higdon & Sink. All rights reserved.
- 11. What came first? ? The age old question ¡°what came first, the chicken or the egg?¡± has finally been solved. The formation of eggs is possible only thanks to a protein found in chickens ovaries. That means eggs have to be formed in chickens first.