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...enduring belief that it must stay in the forefront of changes in media has driven its growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News�24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were no crowds. He had one 3 p.m. gig at a drive-in theater, in front of an audience in a dozen cars with speakers attached to the windows. If people liked a joke, they honked. Occasionally he played to dead-empty rooms...
...place in a very unusual road race on a dismantled Air Force base in Victorville, Calif. A few years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's blue-sky high-tech research wing that everyone calls DARPA, decided it was interested in developing robotic vehicles that could drive themselves: no remote control, no human intervention, only artificial intelligence behind the wheel. But instead of hiring a bunch of fancy nerds and sticking them in an undisclosed location until they came up with a robo-car, DARPA held an open-invitation unmanned-car rally. Come on down, bring...
...particular to see that the Lutheran Church changed on this issue.” She discovered an organization called Soulforce, a non-violent resistance group dedicated to ending gay bigotry with religious roots, and was unbowed in the face of the group’s arrest record. Her drive inspired Reitan to take a more active stance. “She said, ‘Well I don’t know about the arrests, but their message is right on, and they’re the only organization that I know that will really be doing major demonstrations there...
When the pair noticed that Colono was having trouble breathing, they stopped outside of the 7-Eleven at the corner of Buswell Street and Park Drive on the edge of Brookline to get help...