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...league's fastest growing revenue stream comes from new stadiums, which are also a product of the recent centralization. Under a program called G3, the league grabs $1 million in television revenues from each team and uses the money as collateral to float bonds for stadium construction. The NFL has loaned $725 million to help build or renovate 20 stadiums in the past 10 years. Total investment: $3 billion, $2.4 billion of which has been put up by owners. To keep those projects going--new stadiums are abuilding in Dallas and Phoenix, Ariz.--the league maintains in-house finance...
...this place closes, the real Harvard Square is completely buried,” said David Brennan, who has come to the cafe since the 1970s. “The free-floating intellectuals may have no place to float free...
...their music. In months to come, their fame would explode, with appeal not only in the underground, but also as far-reaching as MTV, where their video for “Take Me Out” could be seen alongside Modest Mouse’s “Float On.” The other moment came when I returned to school from the summer, and suddenly, everyone I knew was humming “New Slang” and “Caring is Creepy” from the Shins’ 2001 record Oh, Inverted World, a favorite...
...goes black and you can see the curvature of the earth, Melvill and fellow test pilot Brian Binnie each had a good four minutes of weightlessness with nothing to do. Both took digital-camera snapshots through the portholes. Melvill scattered a handful of M&M's and watched them float. Binnie took out a tiny model of SpaceShipOne and flew it around the cabin. Then that crazy hinge raises the wings, Earth's gravity kicks in, and SpaceShipOne becomes a glider. "It's like falling into a feather bed," says Melvill...
...people get to conveniently purchase their music at every zip code, they might even be on MTV in the form of video artists. And we know we can’t have our indie rock heroes and villains doing that, right? Though I did kinda like “Float On?...