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...beleaguered television networks, the explosion of dot.com advertising is helping to push up rates 10% to 20% this fall. "It's created an unnaturally tight market," notes Jon Mandel, co-managing director of ad buyer MediaCom. The online magazine Salon recently rolled out a provocative $4 million TV campaign featuring digitally crafted odd couples, like celebrities Chris Rock and Linda Tripp, dancing at a dinner party. "We needed to cast a wider net," says Patrick Hurley, Salon's vice president of marketing. "We're not going to put our head in the sand and pretend that other media...
...calories and an increase in exercise. They aren't getting many book contracts. "Most Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, and now you have diets like Atkins that say don't eat sweet potatoes, don't eat carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around them, the more apt they...
...WOODSON MERRELL is executive director of the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing in New York City
Here's how art imitates life. It's the spring of last year, and Mike Wallace--immemorial TV journalist, much honored anchor of 60 Minutes--is on the phone to film director Michael Mann. Mann is making a movie about one of the less exalted episodes in Wallace's career, the time four years ago when 60 Minutes suppressed its story on Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco-industry whistle blower. Mann's film moves on two tracks. One is the anguished dealings between Wigand and Lowell Bergman, a 60 Minutes producer who is leash holder and hand holder for the tormented...
Nancy Corbin, director of clinical services for student-counseling services at Iowa State University, says her office is seeing a significant increase in requests for counseling from freshmen who are having trouble making the adjustment to college life. Despite all their technical sophistication, she says, older teenagers increasingly lack the skills to deal with personal problems that aren't easily defined or fixed. "They have 'point-and-click' expectations," she says. And they get homesick but have a hard time admitting...