Word: channell
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...months later, Eyeworks made Half Ton Dad, about the struggles of Kenneth Brumley, a 1,035-lb. (469 kg) 40-year-old father of four, also from Texas, who, unlike Williams, survived well past his bypass surgery. As the Channel 4 promotional material put it: "Half Ton Dad is the story of a father, his family and a country which currently has 15 million morbidly obese citizens...
...happened when one of them went awry on Oct. 7 and began sending erroneous data spikes on the plane's angle of attack (AOA) - the angle between its wings and the air flowing over them - to the flight-control computer. "For some reason, the damn computer disregarded the healthy channels," says Hans Weber, an aviation expert who heads Tecop International, an aviation-consulting firm in San Diego. "Instead, it acted upon the information from the rogue channel." The computer, responding to the faulty data, put the plane into a dive. (Read "Is There a Cause for Fear of Flying...
...Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney ... The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan." The story was sourced to an interview by an unnamed Arab TV channel with American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh immediately denounced the report as "complete madness" to another Pakistani paper, the Daily Times, saying, "Vice President Cheney does not have a death squad ... I have never suggested that [McChrystal] was involved in political assassinations or death squads." Yet at a press briefing...
...financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual small business each week will vote on which one of them should be laid off; on CBS's Undercover Boss, execs take on dirty jobs in their own companies. The History channel, meanwhile, announced a reality series about a Las Vegas pawnshop. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
...expected to be movement leader Sondhi Limthongkul, 61, a formerly bankrupt media magnate who has accrued various enemies in a long public career. Sondhi was wounded in an assassination attempt in April that he blamed on corrupt politicians and military men. Millions of viewers regularly watch his satellite television channel ASTV, which openly advocates for the PAD and could provide the new party with a potentially huge voter base. "We asked our people and the masses want us to do this," said PAD spokesman Panthep Pourpongpan. (Watch TIME's video "Buddhist Monks in War and Protest...