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...mail has helped me to reduce my phone bill, but will never eliminate it completely--sometimes, I crave the sound of a human voice. A computer can't duplicate the distinctive handwriting in a "snail mail" letter. Messages pile into the e-mail "mailbox" mechanically, their arrival times their primary distinguishing characteristics...
...Expos program's emphasis on one-on-one conferences and extensive revisions offers the kind of intensive, personal educational experience most students crave. Unlike most of the University's programs, it exists wholly for undergraduates, and wholly for the purpose of teaching. Such a valuable program should not be allowed to suffer because of poor administration...
Other local delicacies: It's all terrible for you--it's wonderful. We eat scrapple all the time. It's made from pig scraps, pork broth, corn meal and lard. You slice it up and then you fry it on both sides. I crave it along with my grandmother's slippery chicken and dumplings...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
...powerful countervailing force is corporate America. No matter how many narrowcasting options are made possible by the new technology, advertisers will still crave network television's unique ability to reach a critical mass of consumers at one swoop. For that reason, if no other, there will be pressure to retain some semblance of a network schedule and programming that appeals to a large cross-section of viewers. One possible scenario: a network show such as 60 Minutes or Roseanne will still "debut" each week at a set time. Many viewers will plant themselves in front of the set to watch...