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...relations needs. (If there were no lung cancer or emphysema, the arts would get much less.) Increasingly, these needs are defined as social rather than artistic. Hence the shift, in private philanthropy, to race- and gender-based programs, meant to make art what theatrical director Robert Brustein calls "a conduit for social justice" rather than art as art. As the newsletter Corporate Philanthropy Report recently noted, "We no longer 'support' the arts. We use the arts in innovative ways to support the social causes chosen by our company...
...should meet the child's need to be prepared for life as a productive citizen. Television, the nation's most powerful teacher, should be a conduit for the generational transmission of democratic values and the values of simple decency...
...DIED." CLARK KENT, 56, journalist; in an attack on Kent's family and friends; in Smallville. Following the discovery by supervillain Conduit (a.k.a. childhood friend Kenny Braverman) that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same, the Man of Steel has allowed the world to assume-for now-that Kent perished in the Conduit-led assault...
...they reached her, Brandy Liggons, 15, had been trapped for nearly 12 hours. "You can't imagine what it looked like where she was," says surgeon Rick Nelson, who had to climb over corpses to get to her. "She was completely covered in rubble, twisted metal framing and electrical conduit of about two inches in diameter. She seemed to be wrapped around a metal chair." It took three hours to extract Brandy, while Nelson gave her oxygen and cheered her along with small talk. "I told her she was being treated by the best-looking surgeon in Oklahoma," he said...
...hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet, Helsingius' computer-and the service it provides-is a glorious haven. Known technically as an anonymous remailer, it is the network equivalent of a Swiss bank: a conduit by which users can ship data around the world in complete anonymity. Dozens of anonymous remailers have sprouted up in recent years-many of them in Scandinavia -but none is as popular or as trusted as Helsingius' service, known as Penet. For the past three years, networkers around the world have used his node on the Internet as a transfer point for the most...