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...JERSEY: Although the mega-losing New Jersey Nets have long been accused of impersonating a professional basketball team, it turns out basketball wasn't the only thing being faked in the Meadowlands. Nets officials admitted Friday that they had blasted recorded crowd noise through arena speakers to to pump up the volume at home games. "Some of this stuff is embarrassing," coach John Calipari told the New York Daily News. "I just shook my head. I said, "Do we need to do that?' " said Calipari, who learned of the high-decibel hoax early in the season. The interesting thing...
...sprouting is quite helpful to those students needy of a quick dose of caffeine to remain awake in section. But the coffee house's corporate mega-affiliation gives cause to ask whether we are being surrounded...
...becomes a Pizza Hut and Cardullo's is replaced by a Star Market. A Wal-Mart might soon open in the courtyard of Dunster House. Even specialty stores are at risk; how long will it be before Hubba Hubba is driven out of business by an S&M mega-store...
...Small World Order," written by Doug Rand, with score by Adam Levitin, is billed by its creators as a "mega-multimedia demonstration." Entering the theater, patrons are received by a greeter in a Disney visor who gives a standard "welcome to the theme park" speech and escorts each ticket holder to the seating area. This is all very funny the first time it happens, but if you're waiting in line, it grows tedious rather quickly...
...stock down four percent in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange, but lifted Conrail by 20 percent. The merger will depend on approval from Conrail shareholders, who would receive $92.50 in cash and CSX stock for each share, and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. After approving two mega-mergers in as many years, the board is unlikely to block this one. Some layoffs are anticipated from the consolidation of the two operations, but neither company would provide any details. Terence Nelan