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...heavy dose of reality and game shows: Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which Ryan Seacrest and Drew Carey spend even more hours a week on television. Unscripted shows like FOX's American Idol and CBS's The Price is Right will fill up schedule holes much the way TV newsmagazines did during the last writers' strike. That's how Hard Copy came about...
...feverish intensity and stoked demand for fake birds.“You would try to beat out your neighbor by having more and better oddities,” Berry said.A company in London used the charred dodo remains and a few archival drawings to construct fake dodos and fill the void in the market. Since the drawings they used may have depicted dead, bloated dodos, today’s image of the dodo could be as skewed as a funhouse mirror.Around the turn of the century, Harvard’s Natural History Museum decided it needed its own faux dodo...
Fourteen years old, and America's biggest kids' superstar already has enough personas to fill a postmodern novel. But to Cyrus, reached by phone between tour preparation and an appearance on Ellen, the distinction is not that complicated. "What my fans get, which parents have a harder time grasping, is they know who's underneath Hannah Montana," she says. "They like the girl who's underneath...
Money from the private sector could help fill that gap, but there is more than one way to get it. Deals like the Chicago Skyway and Indiana Toll Road, which lease existing assets, may tap the private sector's operating prowess and political immunity in raising tolls, but critics see them as long-term mortgages to solve short-term fiscal problems. "People are giving public-private partnership a bad name by running around the countryside trying to entice cash-strapped states and municipalities to participate in these monetizations," says Tim Carson, vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike commission...
...weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the dog - I'm withholding its name because it's still a minor, at least in human years - the agents insisted on staying for much of the afternoon to make sure we weren't going to make it mow the lawn or clean the bathrooms...