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...does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies--fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items--still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a humming mainstream business that responds quickly to changes in mass culture. That's why the new film and TV show depart from the softer story lines of the '90s. Since Sept. 11, Star Trek has basically become an action franchise again. It's even trying to be sexier. But Trek...
...make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies - fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items - still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a humming mainstream business that responds quickly to changes in mass culture. That's why the new film and TV show depart from the softer story lines...
After Dartmouth College’s cash-strapped athletic department announced it would cut its swim teams last month, the boyfriend of one of the Big Green swimmers put the team up for sale on eBay, hoping to scrape together the $211,000 needed to keep the team afloat...
...plan went, well, swimmingly for about two days. The team’s bidding page got thousands of hits, and one (eventually withdrawn) bid of $212,000. But then, aided by the Dartmouth athletic department, some astute chap at eBay figured out that the team wasn’t the swimmer’s boyfriend’s to sell. End of auction...
...second workshop, the duo (along with Whitman) demonstrated several software packages and presented different approaches for composing with them. To conclude, they presented the class with a new piece they had composed using sounds sampled directly from the students. “If we see these on Ebay, you’re dead,” Daniel joked. It was a satisfying conclusion to the duo’s weeklong residency. “It was a fair amount of work, but it was worth it to me,” said Tom Lee, the Program Manager for Learning From...