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...that gets us to watch the shows - is to create the conditions for drama in precisely this way. Anything they do, by definition, alters the social dynamic. (The producers of "Big Brother" desperately changed the rules of the game on the fly to revive its ratings.) Last year, Richard Hatch, an experienced diver, increased his chances of winning (as he eventually did) when his tribe won a set of snorkeling gear, which allowed him to catch fish for his hungry victims. Do his opponents have a case against the producers for offering a prize that played to his strengths? Would...
...Despite the best efforts of NASA's engineers, there's a chance that the minor adjustments the station makes to keep a stable orbit, or the pounding astronauts give their treadmill, or even someone slamming a hatch too hard, could jar the complex enough to disrupt some experiments that depend on weightlessness...
Harvard claims to provide a safety hatch for students wishing to escape the rigidity of the Core curriculum. Individuals dissatisfied with limited, overcrowded and unchallenging Core offerings may petition the Standing Committee on the Core Program and request credit for a non-Core class. However, the apparent flexibility afforded by the petition process is undermined by the rarity with which petitions are granted and the secrecy, unpredictability and seemingly arbitrary nature of Standing Committee decisions...
...meanwhile, have mounted an equally aggressive ad campaign on Ashcroft's behalf. His answers during two days of testimony and to more than 360 written questions the committee's Democrats threw at him "are thorough and forthright," insists Jeanne Lopatto, an aide to the panel's GOP chairman, Orrin Hatch...
...from NATPE, the television industry's annual trade show in Las Vegas. (NATPE, by the way, stands for the National Association of Television Producers and Executives). This week, as CBS executives are counting on the launch of "Survivor 2" to follow the success of the series that made Richard Hatch the biggest TV star since, well, Darva Conger, hundreds of producers, studios and distributors of programming came to hang their shingle in one of the most bizarre bazaars on earth...