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Then came the NFL. Jordan and the Bulls. ESPN (which I blame the most). It was hitting me so fast, and I felt so free every time I changed the channel and moved from the Wide World of Sports to the Olympics to the Lipton Championships (an old tennis tournament...
...know A&E? The channel dubbed "Arts & Entertainment" that shows biographies and makes original movies based on The Great Gatsby? About as high culture as you can get on basic cable? Well, they have a new show hosted by, of all people, Terry Bradshaw. It's called The Competition. Check out this Friday's episode, which includes a Best Mule-Pulled Wagon race...
...Well, the Yankees have cable TV deals, and if, for example, they were to try to get their own cable TV channel, they'd need programming. You could get a pretty decent rating for Manchester United games on cable in the U.S. The British Premiership, in which Manchester United play, is a big league - you can watch its weekly highlights just about anywhere in the world. So there are countless opportunities for cross-marketing and global programming...
...bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as mad-cow disease. The illness started attacking British cattle in the mid-1980s. Then it crossed the species barrier; a human version of BSE has killed more than 80 Britons since 1995. Then it leaped across the Irish Sea and the English Channel, afflicting cows in 12 European nations. Last week Italy confirmed its first cases. Late last year, it hit Spain and Germany. Earlier this month, the German ministers of health and agriculture resigned in disgrace when their assurances that German beef was safe proved false. A handful of human deaths have...
...cost of adopting from a public agency (from no money to $2,500) is less than the usual expense of a private channel ($4,000 to more than $30,000). Still, private adoptions account for about half the roughly 60,000 U.S. adoptions each year, and demand is robust partly because of the growing demands of infertile couples. Many children available through agencies have spent years in foster homes and can have developmental or health problems that dismay would-be parents. Many countries, including Britain, ban privately arranged adoptions to ensure no one profits from trading babies...