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...latest round of belt tightening, however, has an odd new twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late...
...land of the Vikings, there is nothing better to do in the cold winter than think up new addiction groups. Beattie, however, muses over a different theory. "I've heard kind of a strange philosophy on that," she says. "According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy. I don't know ((if there is)) any fact to that, but it would make a lot of sense...
...Rolke, 18, a varsity swimmer at Washington's American University, has barely had a trim in the past two years and says of his mass of bronze curls, "The girls like it." The ponytail's most notable practitioner is undoubtedly Hollywood's Steven Seagal, the impassive karate black belt whose hit movies Hard to Kill and Marked for Death helped popularize the style...
Several councillors drew parallels to the Inner Belt, a superhighway proposed in the late 1960s that would have run through Central Square. After years of friction with Transportation Department officials, the city ultimately managed to block that project...
...product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep up with car bodies creeping down the line. On the Saturn "skillet" line, workers ride along on a moving wooden conveyor belt as they do their jobs, which enables them to concentrate on their work. Other progressive steps are the use of water-borne paint (rather than oil-based), which reduces pollution, and an aluminum-casting method called the lost-foam process, which produces better-quality engine components with less machining...