"In any high-pressure working environment, tensions can surface. Young Mi and I had a professional disagreement, which we put behind us. She and I continued to work together at eBay, where I valued her skilled counsel and thorough professionalism."-California gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman, in a statement regarding the six-figure settlement she paid to a former employee at eBay.

There's trouble afoot in the world of virtual online sex: "Raising the stakes on a two-year-old intellectual property controversy in Second Life, a popular seller of online adult novelties filed a federal copyright- and trademark-infringement lawsuit against Linden Lab this week. The suit claims that Linden looks the other way, while virtual residents rip off the SexGen product line, which includes specially programmed beds, rugs, sofas and even a coffin that enable consenting avatars to engage in virtual sex acts." It also includes SEX GENITALS!