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...with one phenomenon and one dud. The rest of television spent the summer boning up, and since then "The Mole" came and quietly went, "Temptation Island" drew viewers but scared away advertisers, "The Weakest Link" took "Survivor"-style ruthlessness into the lavish confines of the game-show studio, and "Boot Camp" proved that slavish imitation of a business model can still pay off in this business...
...find jihad-kamikazes in the "rogue" states. Or even in a more sophisticated version, it would make more sense for a "rogue" state to develop a mobile Cruise Missile capability that would fly under the radar of the proposed missile shield and be more accurate than an ICBM, to boot...
...Tito's background. He may not be a cosmonaut, but he is an actual rocket scientist who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before becoming a successful businessman. (He founded the investment firm Wilshire Associates.) He also completed some 900 hours of training in Star City, the cosmonauts' boot camp, and was deemed flightworthy by Russia's space commission. So on Thursday NASA had Tito sign a paper swearing that he wouldn't sue if anything went wrong and promising to reimburse the agency if he broke anything--the closest thing to an official go-ahead that...
...power. The ignorance that created the placebo-powered cold-busting green torpedo has given way to an understanding of sterile, uninspiring data. While it seems that in this case, ignorance may have been healthful bliss, I must believe that the loss of some small area of mystery under the boot of scientific progress, no matter how inconvenient now, can only be rewarded in the future...
...look for moral uplift in Boot Camp (Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a military-training Survivor look-alike that prompted a lawsuit from CBS (since swiping hit concepts is unheard-of in the TV business). But while it is derivative and goofy--the screaming "drill instructors" put the "camp" in Boot Camp--it also shows a kind of olive-drab heart. Its major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including...