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Until last week that looked to be the case for Prodigy, the country's pioneer consumer online service. Frozen by a billion-dollar debt, the company watched helplessly as America Online and CompuServe blew past in an online explosion. By the time CEO Edward Bennett arrived last spring, he was left with a simple choice: reinvent the company or fold...
Contemporary technophiles could learn a lot from the fire ants' story. They could learn even more from historian Edward Tenner's newly published Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Knopf; 346 pages; $26), in which that story and many more like it combine to paint a richly detailed picture of one of the more enduring features of modernity's landscape: the way our best-laid technological plans often go so thoroughly awry...
...broadcast journalists the legend of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues who covered World War II for CBS has cast its shadow for more than half a century, and for good reason. Remarkably gifted, remarkably courageous, remarkably ambitious, remarkably young--Murrow was 29 when he was sent to Europe by CBS--this "band of brothers," as Murrow and his group referred to themselves, brought the most dramatic story of the 20th century home to millions of America's radio listeners, and literally created broadcast news in the process...
...Edward Albee and Sam Shepard came of age in an era when playwrights could be stars too. Albee's excoriating family drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shook Broadway out of its comfy seats in 1962 and established him as the premier American playwright of the post-Arthur Miller generation. Shepard (though his work has largely been ignored by Broadway until now) was the most acclaimed and charismatic playwright to emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning...
...ended with a private White House dinner of lamb and artichokes at $10,000 a plate and grossed about half a million. Bill and Hillary Clinton were eloquent in praise of their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording of the real Eleanor singing (sort of) High Hopes, which brought both gales of laughter and misty eyes...