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Just the other day, scientists made a great discovery: that exposure to controlled amounts of light can counter the effects of jet lag. The media pounced on the results and by the end of the day, nearly every major radio station in Boston had broadcast the miraculous discovery. "No more jet lag," the announcers promised...
...scheduled to stand trial on those charges last week, but the Estime murder trial was postponed to allow Desyr to appeal his conviction. Two 90-minute tape recordings of the torturing of the Estimes were seized from Desyr's home last February. The tapes, filled with screams, have been broadcast on Haitian radio stations. At one point on the tape, Desyr orders a man torturing one of the cousins to "break his finger...
...economist then disappeared and was not heard from again until East German television broadcast an interview with him from the East German mission in Bonn. On the air, Meissner claimed he had been drugged by West German policemen before making the earlier statements. Bonn promptly rejected Meissner's story as "fully absurd" and refused to allow the would-be redefector to leave the country. Stay tuned...
...museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the mind. But 400 years from now people will be able to say, 'Here we are living on Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost...
...sale of television rights and tickets," he says. But many of the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies are unsold. Of the total of 58,000 tickets, 9,000 remain, most of them in the $100 and $200 category. ABC, however, is not worried; the network bought the broadcast rights for $10 million, and has already sold $30 million worth of commercials...