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...flip side, of course, is that so far there is no evidence that the blackout rule has really alienated any part of the league's huge, dedicated fan base. But if it begins to have a wider impact, frequent local blackouts could do some long-term damage to the NFL's business. In Detroit, Yuille believes that after five Lions games were blacked out last year, casual fans completely lost interest in football. "More than anything, television is a mass-market promoter of a sport," says Zimbalist. "You don't want to cut that...
Devine hopes that by quantifying the nutritional impact of on-the-job constraints, it might finally prompt employers to make some workplace changes. "We are not going to fix the obesity epidemic simply by telling people to eat well and choose good food," she says. "This study is telling us that it is the structure of our lives that makes it very difficult to do what doctors recommend...
Even apart from that memorable discussion, our service issues have had a real-world impact. Many of the ideas and proposals Time made over the past two years have been incorporated in the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a bill passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Obama in April...
...eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears. And you really start seeing, I think, a level of awareness about how decisions you make, about where you shop or what car you drive has an impact on the broader world. And so I think it's a positive thing...
...When Rogers got to Harvard, the question wasn’t if he would make an impact, but when...