Word: channelized
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...course, impossible to know what Du Pre, by all accounts a fun-loving woman with a gift for mimicry, would think of all this. Although the family had its roots in the Channel isles, Du Pre grew up in London. By the age of 18 months, she could sing in tune. Her sister Hilary was a flutist who was talented but could not compete with the young prodigy, who practiced little and memorized easily. "Whatever I tried to do, she always did much better," writes Hilary...
...your article on the campaign by schoolchildren in Colorado to purchase the freedom of individual slaves in Sudan [PHILANTHROPY, Dec. 21], you mentioned that I put the kids and their message on our Nickelodeon channel. But it was my granddaughter Keryn who first informed me of the class's campaign against slavery. Initially, I didn't realize the significance of Keryn's concerns, but her persistence and tenacious focus on this international atrocity convinced me that I should spotlight the children's extraordinary effort. The credit for the resulting Nickelodeon News segment, which jump-started the effort, belongs rightfully...
...world, and while we all sympathize with them, is their welfare really our direct responsibility? Moreover, will $1 really save a child's life? And how do we know these organizations are reliable? Most important, is it immoral of us to ignore the commercial? By switching the channel, are we responsible for some poor child's death...
...extreme to assert that we are morally obligated to help remote, starving children. Few of us do (at least not by mailing in $1 to UNICEF), and even fewer of us feel bad about not doing so. Why? Because, intuitively, it just doesn't seem wrong to switch the channel when something like that comes on the screen...
...sure why, but I spent a lot more time thinking about the weather than about most other stories of the year. It's probably because the weather has to do with life outside modernity and control, which may also account for people's improbable fascination with the Weather Channel...