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...great engine of U.S. commerce continues to churn out ever more sophisticated means of packaging and distributing this melange to consumers. Today some 85% of U.S. homes with television sets also have VCRs, generating nearly $10 billion in annual videotape rentals in a market that did not exist 20 years ago. The compact disc rejuvenated the recorded-music industry, winning new listeners for both Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, just as the CD-ROM promises to turn home computers into powerful outlets for entertainment...
...these energies are pouring into altered formats. Leadership was once attended by a certain amount of mystery. Today leadership is a subject enveloped not so much by mystique as by mystification. Just what is leadership? How does it work? Publishers churn out books on leadership by the hundreds -- mostly treatises on technique, on how to function as an agile and adapting leader in the high-velocity channels of global business...
...World Cup also gives the U.S. a reason to clean its streets, improve its public transportation system, and cut down on urban violence. True, our stomachs churn when despotic nations put their best foot forward (while using it to stomp on the populace) for an event like this. Nevertheless, a little national spirit and good behavior can't hurt the U.S.'s image abroad...
...forced to align itself with former Fox stations that, typically, do not have an early-evening newscast as a lead-in. In any case, the inevitable scramble for affiliates promises to be a no-win game for all three networks. "There's going to be a lot of churn at the networks," says Stringer. "Loyalty just went out the window. That isn't really good for broadcasting...
Gradually the cancer cell invades the turf occupied by its normal counterparts, killing all those in its path. It tricks nearby cells into forming food-bearing blood vessels, then compels them to churn out growth- spurring chemicals. To shield itself from patrolling immune cells, the cancer cell sprouts spiny armor like a sea urchin's. To expel the agents physicians send to kill it, the cancer cell deploys along its membrane a battery of tiny pumps. Is there a way to fight such...