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Your cover exclaims, "Vanishing Act: How Climate Change Is Causing a New Age of Extinction," but the article does not--and cannot--say that. Climate change is mentioned only in passing, and the major causes of extinction are clearly shown to be deforestation and encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate-change reference...
...ways broadcast networks can draw a big audience, as they did in the halcyon precable days. One is by programming series, like Idol and Dancing with the Stars, that are essentially sporting events. That is, they are simple to follow, they can be enjoyed by a wide demographic and age range, and - most important - they have no shelf life. There are winners and losers, and spoilers abound the next day. So you watch them that night, as they happen - not on DVR or Hulu - or you might as well not watch them at all. And that means you watch them...
...practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir the audience, and not just the young girls, to a collective rapturous sigh. (See pictures of Efron's career...
...though he's now of legal drinking age, Efron is 17 again. Not that it's a stretch for him to play someone four years younger. He still has the mop top, the downy skin and the sensuous sanctity of the boy every mother wants her daughter to bring home - if he weren't dating his dimpled co-star from High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens. He could be the perfect perpetual adolescent. It's as if everyone wants him to be 17 forever. (See pictures of famous couples...
Some broadcasters are known best for what they said, not necessarily how they said it. Sure, Harry Kalas, who died on April 13 at age 73, said some great things. His home-run call ("Outta heeeeere!") will never be topped. But more than anybody else, Harry will be remembered for how he said it: with great style and panache...