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...handsome teen-aged boys (Jeremy Sisto, Balthazar Getty, and Scott Wolf, among others) go on a voyage from the Caribbean to the Galapagos and back on a boat manned by cool teachers (John Savage and Caroline Goodall) and a studly, charismatic captain (Jeff Bridges). While learning discipline and the finer points of ocean sailing, they also study their ABCs. And of course, they discover friendship, sex and alcohol. Unfortunately, disaster ensues. A freak storm sinks the boat, killing four, and the coast guard blames the father figure. You can guess what happens next...
...gives you a finer discriminate," Feldman explains...
...Nielsen survey also seems likely to spark a boom in further research. Niche marketers will want to slice the study's broad demographic categories (gender, age, income) into ever finer segments--something the Net facilitates by allowing marketers to gather data on its users with every click of a mouse. And companies with more global ambitions will want to extend the polling data beyond North America into the more than 160 other countries that can be reached through the Internet...
Joking aside, the Reeve interview and feature, which ran the length of 20/20 on Sept. 29 (the newsmagazine's highest-rated program in more than two years), were one of Walters' finer hours. Once past the hokey intro ("I think he's more Superman now than ever before"), she was host of a compelling session in which Reeve, speaking on the exhale through his ventilator, let the viewer feel the despair he felt when he first realized what had happened to him, the panic that hit him the first few times his ventilator stopped functioning, the love of his family...
...very somber group once the news came out," center Kent Hull said. "I can't think of a finer person than Mary Levy, and I just hate that he has to go through this...