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...Farmer's Almanac predicts showers for the weekend...
Success 1994 is part revival meeting, The Music Man and medicine show and all uplift, with dialogue inspired by the Bible, Poor Richard's Almanac, Calvinism, common sense and Horatio Alger. The show has already been to Seattle, San Jose, Washington, San Francisco, Anaheim, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and Columbia. Coming up: Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron, Richmond, Sarasota, Rochester, Chicago...
...Richard M. Head, weather prognosticator, Old Farmer's Almanac...
...founder's approach seems to be paying off. When Macworld magazine selected the 10 best Macintosh CD-ROM programs for its March issue, three were ours: TIME Almanac 1993 (Best Almanac CD), Clinton: Portrait of Victory (Best Politics CD) and Seven Days in August (Best History CD). Seven Days is a multimedia account of the week in 1961 when the Berlin Wall was erected. "Of all the discs I surveyed," wrote Macworld editor James A. Martin, "this one is my favorite, for it best exploits the real potential of CD-ROM as a medium that can add depth and perspective...
...real target these days, it seems, is history. Public opinion matters less to him than what high-school textbooks will say about him. Regardless of the policy failures of his presidency, Bush will return to his Houston hotel room a happy man if he can convince The World Almanac in his last three months not to say nasty things in their capsule review of his tenure...