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...until Fox can prove that it is genuinely dedicated to providing “fair and balanced” newscasts, Democrats should not participate in any network-sponsored debates, interviews or press conferences revolving around the 2008 election. Such a protest would allow Democrats to make a targeted objection to the biased, dirty reporting that typifies Fox News without seeming desperate or aloof...
Harvard researchers and a local technology company are developing a network of weather sensors that will make the Cambridge climate one of the most closely studied in the country. CitySense, a project headed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Matt Welsh, brings Harvard researchers and BBN Technologies engineers together to create a unique wireless network that can be used for research ranging from high school projects to doctoral theses. Cambridge will be the first city to install the sensor nodes, which will be placed on or inside small boxes, on its street-light poles next year. “CitySense...
...Franken stumbled as the left's answer to Limbaugh. That experiment--the network Air America--has been struggling ever since it debuted in 2004. Franken left Air America in February, when he declared he would run for Senate; federal regulations prevent that kind of free airtime. It was just as well: the show was deadweight on an otherwise successful career...
...bank are so high that without them, the poor would have no alternative. "To build a bank in Africa, you need $5 million to start, and then another $3 million in minimum equity capital," says Chris Crane, CEO of Opportunity International, an Illinois-based Christian microlender. Crane's network of 12 microbanks worldwide has nearly $160 million in savings accounts and insures more than 3 million lives...
...comic TV that is also a fund raiser, is a ratings winner that garnered $128 million in 2005. Dreamed up by screenwriter (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director (Love Actually) Richard Curtis in 1988, it was an idea Fuller had been trying, not very successfully, to sell to network heads here. "Then I thought, actually, I control the biggest show in America," he says. "And we have 30 million-- plus people watching every week. Maybe I could just hand over Idol for one week, and that would give us what we want...