Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Energy bars were invented with hard-core athletes in mind. Brian Maxwell, distance-running coach at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife Jennifer cooked up the first PowerBars in their kitchen in 1983. They were looking for a performance-enhancing food that marathoners could scarf down late in a race. The Maxwells made a bar that was about 45% complex carbohydrates and only 10% fat. But the trade-off was losing some foodlike qualities: PowerBars have a rubbery texture that can take some getting used...
...machine works. But what is the view across the lake going to look like, once Hilton has finished its own contribution to the urban mix, the Paris Las Vegas, with a half-size replica of the Eiffel Tower right across from the shores of Bellagio? Don't ask. Never mind. For sure, it won't have any Picassos...
...Never mind that Wall Street is wobbly, that Asia's gamblers are currency shocked or that most Americans are already no more than a tank of gas away from the nearest blackjack table. Las Vegas is on a $7 billion building jag, with 18 major hotel and casino projects scheduled to open before 2000. By the millennium, Vegas will have more rooms than New York City, Paris or Los Angeles and more slots than the U.S. Postal Service...
...summer of 1993 Jamie Kellner was sitting around his house in Santa Barbara, Calif., bored out of his mind. For eight years he had served as president of the Fox network, which he had helped create. Exhausted, he had retired. "But after six months," he says, "I was very unhappy." He noticed that some of his former colleagues were leaving Fox, and he knew that Fox was trying to broaden its audience, no longer concentrating on young people. So Kellner had a realization: he ought to get his old team back together and start Fox all over again...
...actor Jeff Daniels linking two stories of real and reel life), a lot from The Truman Show (except that here everyone in town believes in the grand fiction of a perfectly ordered society). But Ross, who helped create two other fantasies of displacement, Big and Dave, has more in mind: Follow your heart, not the rules. And '50s bad, '60s good...