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...formerly mass networks are losing money and cultural clout. Next fall NBC will give Jay Leno five hours of prime time a week because he's cheaper than producing Medium. Programmers and cultural critics are warning of the end of the mass-media era, when shows from I Love Lucy to Seinfeld joined tens of millions of Americans in a common experience...
...idea isn't new--cultures like the Navajo have been doing it for centuries--for-profit companies in the U.S. and Canada are catching on, infusing products with good vibes through meditation, prayer and even music. Since 2006, California company H2Om has sold water infused with wishes for "love," "joy" and "perfect health" via the words, symbols and colors on the label (which "create a specific vibratory frequency," according to co-founder Sandy Fox) and the restorative music played at their bottling warehouse. At Creo Mundi, a Canadian maker of protein powder, employees gather around each shipment and state aloud...
...simple bluesy opener, "Black Hearted Love," walks up to the edge of carnal desperation ("When you call out my name in rapture/I volunteer my soul for murder") but never quite cedes control. "Leaving California" is sweeter, and sounds it; built on quaintly out-of-tune acoustic guitars and twinkling piano, it's a credible country waltz. "Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen" grooves like Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" even as it tells a folktale of a doomed girl...
...despite Sullivan's insistence that he has not written a biography of the man, there's nothing that his book resembles more than a minilife, full of historical context (a section on mid--19th century economics), personal anecdotes (Thoreau and his brother were at one point in love with the same woman) and analyses of his work. While never fully convincing in his reappraisal, Sullivan makes an elegant case...
...shown a predilection for diplomacy, a subtle strategic sense of the world. But sometimes you have to throw your weight around - quietly, but firmly - and Gelb has raised an essential question: Will Obama know how, and whether, to react if diplomacy fails? (Read "Is Europe Falling Out of Love with Obama...