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...fell 11%. Nor can it all be blamed on the unusually high ratings for the baseball play-offs. In times like these, TV fans are reminded of the famous Happy Days episode in which Fonzie jumped over a shark while water skiing in the Pacific Ocean. At that instant, even the biggest Happy Days fan knew the show would never be the same. Now "jumping the shark" is the term used for that moment when a series hops the track and starts its inevitable downhill slide. A look at some of this year's waning hits, and why they...
...unassuming Michigan road builder named Bob Thompson sold his construction company for $442 million, an amount he and his wife Ellen believed was far more than they needed for retirement. His first act, which received national attention, was to distribute $128 million to his employees; about 80 became instant millionaires. Then Thompson decided to donate most of the rest of his money to public education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation...
Professional football is entertainment. Fans want drama. They want to root for the players on their fantasy teams. They want instant gratification for their 70 bucks. Sudden death overtime gives it to them. Whoever scores first, wins. BOOM! John Madden is excited...
Where the 4670 stumbles is with the included software. The image-editing tools, used to touch up pictures once you have scanned them, can be complicated. The Instant Share feature, which lets you scan and e-mail pictures on the fly, doesn't allow you to crop pictures before you send them. And the Panorama Maker program, which is supposed to let you scan segments of large things like maps and posters and then "stitch" the images back into a coherent whole, doesn't always reassemble the images quite right...
...Reagan letters illuminate so much more than the man and the influences that shaped his life. They give notice that letter writing is a dying art, succumbing to the modern-day requisite for immediacy, as reflected in the increasing use of e-mail and instant messaging. Our written communications have lost a quality of intimacy that makes the anticipation of replies to our letters agonizing and exquisite. Where will future historians and biographers find the primary source material to gain insight into their subjects? Modern technology has provided much that is indispensable, but it has also stripped our correspondence...