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...line waiting to enter the Hot Springs (Ark.) Convention Center was already down the block at 9:30 a.m., even though the doors wouldn't open for another half hour. The folks who turned out on this swampy summer morning were a consumer marketer's dream: young couples with two or three children squirming like fish out of water. They were there for the bass. Largemouth bass, that is, and all things bass related, from $50,000 bass boats to $2 lures, bass rods, bass reels, bass videos, bass T shirts. Also Castrol Motor Oil, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, Snickers...
...other cases, though, the collision of strangers and good intentions proves once again that the bureaucracy lacks imagination. After King struck out with the relief organizations, he began looking online. He found openyourhome.com started by Serena Howard, a mother of five in Fayetteville, Ark. (So far, Howard says, she has registered almost 30,000 would-be hosts and placed 2,000 evacuees.) That's where King found the Meehan-Hoo family...
Maybe we treat the story of Noah and the Ark too much like a fairy tale: line up the animals, imagine the growling and squeaking of the beasts all together-and brush right past the part about this festive convention occurring because everyone other than righteous Noah and his family had drowned. The story holds the promise of the rainbow, but that does not ward off the painful search for meaning every time man's negotiations with the land and sea and air appear to have collapsed, as they have so often in the past year...
BATON ROUGE, La.—Caroline E. Sloan ’07, horrified and numb, sat in a Little Rock, Ark. Doubletree Hotel room, scanning for her home in the flicker of the television screen...
George Lucas is again breaking ground. The billionaire director, famous for blockbusters like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, has built a new empire. It's the "ultimate digital studio," he says, an antidote to celluloid's costly chemical processing and vaunted studio system. The Letterman Digital Arts Center is a $350 million facility inside San Francisco's Presidio, a national park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The idea is to advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films...