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...start of a nationwide campaign to force the premarket safety testing and labeling of those GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. Seven organizations--including such media-savvy veterans as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the Public Interest Research Groups--were launching the Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a million-dollar, multiyear organizing effort to pressure Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and individual companies, one at a time, starting with Campbell's soup...
...Before 'Survivor' ever aired, the Naval Special Warfare Archives page www.navyfrogman.com reported that Rudy won the million-dollar prize on April 19, 2000." The evidence has presumably been removed, but this search does turn up the site...
...people on a tropical island to scrabble for food and shelter, all for the delectation of sluggards licking Cheetos dust off their fingers in their air-conditioned living rooms. It's the Machiavellian twist: having the contestants vote one another off the island until there is a single million-dollar winner and 15 rejects. It's the suffering, the mean-spiritedness, the humiliation...
...stay because the next hit could be a home run." True, arguments over who's hogging the rat meat are probably not what Aristotle had in mind when conceiving the Poetics. And producers can contrive conflict, such as Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture, says this "shows that the programmers don't think human interaction itself is dramatic.") But Survivor functions as drama, if not art, because we can map its petty squabbles and triumphs on our own lives. Those mismatched...
...actors went on strike last week over the issue of residuals for commercials, it was hard to rustle up public concern. After all, these are the unions' worker ants, those who make about $475 a day minimum and can't hold up hit prime-time shows with demands for million-dollar raises. So it helped when TIGER WOODS, golf superstar, Nike spokesman--and Screen Actors Guild member--refused to cross the picket line to shoot a Nike commercial at the Isleworth Country Club in Orlando, Fla., his home course. Nike hopes to reschedule; Woods says he won't budge...