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Citystep organizers decided early in the evening to run the buses continuously rather than every half-hour, in order to accommodate the large number of students attending the event, according to Kansil...
...people seem to be turning away from traditional news sources, that does not necessarily mean, of course, they are getting less news. The network evening newscasts are a case in point. For many years, these half-hour programs were virtually the only place where TV viewers could get a wrap-up of the day's major national and world events. Now such stories can turn up in countless other places--not just on CNN and other cable outlets but on the networks' own local affiliates, which get news footage via satellite during...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Languishing in the polls and turned down by at least three potential vice-presidential candidates, Ross Perot reportedly has settled on political economist and anti-trade author Pat Choate as his running mate. The choice was to be announced in a half-hour infomercial scheduled to air on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT tonight, Reform Party sources tell The Associated Press. Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing NAFTA. He co-authored a book with Perot after the Texas billionaire's unsuccessful 1992 presidential run. Choate recently has traveled the country promoting Perot...
...turns out, Larson also left behind a children's mini-musical that he co-wrote with composer Bob Golden. Titled Away We Go!, the half-hour songfest--a youngster's travelogue of Manhattan--originally aired on the Learning Channel and has just been released on video. The host of the musical, which is conceived for two- to eight-year-olds, is a shabby-looking puppet named Newt who takes a young boy and girl for taxi, bus and ferry rides throughout the city...
Which is what happened. They came on that opening day in April, and they haven't stopped coming. Nearly 8,000 people in 3 1/2 months signed up for half-hour sessions on the computers. So many folks wait for the library doors to open each morning--children as young as two, adults older than Bill Gates' parents--that the staff had to put down green tape on the floor to mark off a place to line up for a turn on one of the dozen Pentium-chip computers in the Jell-O-blue reading room...