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Critics say it's all hype, while true believers swear it offers significant help. Born of Eastern practice and Yankee ingenuity, it has elicited both raves and boos. The final verdict on its effectiveness, however, is still pending...
...W.N.B.A. has several other things going for it besides hype. Affordability is one. In Charlotte, a family of four can buy a "Valupak": four tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and popcorn for $25. Generally, the ticket prices are comparable to those at a major league baseball game. (Even the celebrities who have been patronizing Liberty games in Madison Square Garden--Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Hines, Rosie Perez--get a break, paying $150 for a courtside seat that costs Spike Lee $1,000 during the Knicks season.) While the concession stands in Charlotte offer an official leather orange-and-white...
...great adventure on Mars is something less than cutting-edge science. With all the hype, you would think something new is going on. What a farce! This is another public relations ploy. No new technology has been developed on this project. The information to be gained is of marginal use to society or science. We already have in hand a sample of rock from Mars in the form of a meteorite. Why go there to get others? Ten more trips are planned. Was that earlier Mars rock another fraud foisted on the public to keep interest in NASA alive...
Just naming the legislation has caused a fight. When McCollum introduced his House version last year, he called it the Violent Youth Predator Act. Insisting that "predator" was dehumanizing hype, Democrats demanded a change. McCollum backed off and called it the Juvenile Crime Control Act. But this isn't just a fight over crime. It's also a fight over which party is tougher on crime. In that one, harsh words can be as tempting as harsh sentences...
Still, Lilith is a welcome development. Right now, pop music is flaccid. The prefab hype of Spice Girls, the sugar-shock kiddie ditties of Hanson, the admirable wholesomeness but inexcusable tiresomeness of Bob Carlisle, the horrific power screeching of Celine Dion--turn it off. Turn it all off. It's meaningless olestra music, artificial and nutrient-free...