Word: manhattanization
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...amazed that Saporito made no mention of the Big Three's most obvious and most easily remedied failure: clueless marketing. Consider that GM, arguably the world's biggest car company, is worth far less today than Harley-Davidson, the world's fourth largest motorcycle maker. Dexter Ford, MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF...
...Gist: The biggest juggernaut in children's-television history sprang forth from mundane origins. At a Manhattan dinner party in 1966, a Carnegie Foundation executive named Lloyd Morrissett mentioned that his young daughter was so enthralled by television that she would park herself in front of the family's set to gaze at early-morning test patterns. That story prompted a public-television producer named Joan Cooney to investigate how television could be used to package education as entertainment: "What if it went down more like ice cream than spinach?" The ensuing creation - in which kids learned everything from empathy...
...Kitt was most comfortable in her first home, the cabaret. At Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle, where she played regularly, she showed that, even in her 70s, her seductive charm was intact. (The proof is in her last recording, Eartha Kitt, Live at the Carlyle.) There she would vamp her way through the maze of tables, cozying up to a new generation of sugar daddies - or maybe the same old one - and singing her hits from a half-century before as if she were still the hot young sensation, still a kitten on the keys...
...Manhattan psychologist Kevin R. Kulic considers the accessibility of online dating to be a potential silver lining for singles who have lost their jobs in recent months. "Suddenly, people are now able to commit themselves to finding a partner without the constant, time-consuming strain of their careers," he says. "They can't hide behind their BlackBerrys anymore...
...school to list ROTC courses on students' transcripts and say that it "is proud of [students'] service to the nation" in its official description of ROTC. But nowhere is the debate more pronounced than at left-leaning Columbia University. Ever since September, when both Presidential candidates came to the Manhattan campus and voiced their support for ROTC during the TIME-sponsored ServiceNation summit (John McCain's remarks incited boos while Barack Obama's elicited baffled silence), controversy over the issue has roiled the campus...