Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news has had a bumpier road (48 Hours, now in its 11th season, is still plugging along, but Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel has fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...
...company as early as next week. The impending release of Windows 98 presents a challenge to prosecutors because it will moot the issue of Windows 95, which will be widely supplanted by the new version. With that in mind the government will soon have to decide whether to block the release of the new operating system as part of a broader lawsuit based on Sherman Antitrust Act violations. Such a case would be much harder to prove than the comparatively clear-cut issues surrounding the integration of features in Windows 95 -- and that case hasn't exactly been a stroll...
Begin in Baltimore, Md. Granted, Oriole Park at Camden Yards is the newest ball field on the block, having been completed in 1992. But the stadium has been widely praised for its classic, fan-friendly design. Plan to arrive in town by early afternoon, in time to get to the Yards for the game against Toronto at 7:35 p.m. The next day take a guided stadium tour and visit the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Baseball Center, a national landmark that also houses the Baltimore Orioles Museum and the Maryland Baseball Hall of Fame. You might also venture over...
...trove of Civil War memorabilia (the Museum and White House of the Confederacy, Monument Avenue and the Richmond National Battlefield) and also boasts sites like St. John's Episcopal Church, where Patrick Henry gave his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775. A $15 block ticket gives access to more than 36 museums, houses, hotels and churches, available through the Richmond Visitors Center (children under seven are free...
Geared for beginner and intermediate riders (on average, you cycle 25 to 35 miles each day), the tour coasts past lush countrysides, beautiful lakeshore and fragrant orchards, stopping along the way at artists' galleries to view block prints, batiks, Native American pottery, weavings and watercolors. Overnight at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, there's a campus tour and ample opportunity to attend student and faculty performances. You may also get to hear one of the international artists who play at Interlochen each summer (past performers include Yo-Yo Ma, Marvin Hamlisch and Itzhak Perlman). The last night...