Word: hybridize
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...other parts of Georgia are marketing their onions as Vidalia onions. The reason is simple: the Vidalia, because it is mild and because it has become enormously popular, fetches as much as three times the price of ordinary onions. The Vidalia is a yellow Granex type F-1 hybrid, a variety grown throughout the country. Grown elsewhere, however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should...
...most exhilirating cultural and commercial centers in the country. The University (at once sagely academic and youthful), the affluent neighborhood to the west down Brattle St. and the less affluent, heavily ethnic neighborhoods at the northern and eastern ends of Mass. Ave, all combine into a cultural potpourri. This hybrid probably boasts the nation's highest concentration and variety of both ice cream and bookstores (including the oldest foreign language bookstore in the United States.) Harvard Square, as much as Harvard itself, draws tourists, soul-searchers, and cosmopolitans to mid-Cambridge--or at least keeps them here after they earn...
...late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news? Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in content, a TV hybrid. There may be no business like show business, but there's good business in show-business news...
...hybrid of public radio and television evangelism, the show could have been carried off only by Harvard. Imagine a college clogging the airwaves for an hour to ask for $82.5 million. "Harvard College needs your support, your interest, and your continuing concern. And it needs liberal investments of your money," said then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28. The plea was camouflaged among affirmations of the need to support colleges in general: "Not just the quality of American education but the strength of the American people is going to be second-rate," warned Alexander M. White, chairman of the fundraising drive...
...blatant knock-off of the $40,000 two-seat Mercedes-Benz 380 SL that Chrysler has code-named the SL and will sell for about half the price. He is wagering an enormous amount, $700 million, that he can rekindle buyer interest in vans (see box). Chrysler claims the hybrid minivan will be as revolutionary as the Mustang...