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...cable property is sound. Oprah's Harpo Productions is almost as successful a creator of TV programming as she is a talk show host. Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray and Dr. Oz were all sucklings on The Oprah Winfrey Show before being launched solo into syndication. And she's not done yet: Harpo and Sony just announced that a show hosted by Nate Berkus, her interior designer of choice, will be available in 2010. "She has as good an understanding of media and how it works as anyone I've ever met," says Ken Sunshine, a media consultant who also considers...
...menial chores and talk on the phone at the same time. Sullenberger and [co-pilot] Jeffrey Skiles disarmed a bomb on a three-minute fuse. They did it by concentrating on the two really important matters - how to get the engines started, and where to land. They could have done it in a Boeing, too. But it was helpful to their immediate cause that they were working with the product of [Airbus engineer Bernard] Ziegler's mind, in which computers took care of the menial chores, then conjured up a magic carpet for them...
...Americans - some of whom still sniff at the sport's low-scoring games - are coming around: they are among the largest groups of fans to have already purchased tickets for South Africa. "Around half the planet watched the 2006 World Cup final," writes Goldblatt. "Three billion humans have never done anything simultaneously before." And they won't again until the summer...
...There is a lot that they could have done with maps, or geography even, that could have made it educational, and it’s just not at all,” said Dara B. Olmsted ’00, the resident tutor who organized a trip for Mather House. “I don’t know why it was at the Science Museum...
...issue of what they believe is a constant and growing campaign by China to infiltrate U.S. networks, steal secrets and hone Beijing's ability to wreak havoc in case of military conflict, the likelihood is that Chinese officials will simply deny that the problem exists, as they have done with great success in the past. From the American point of view, there's unfortunately currently little Washington can do to change that state of affairs. (See pictures of Xinjiang...