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...Midwest in recent years, thanks to the species-protection programs enacted by most Western states in the 1960s. And though the number of tawny carnivores in places like Illinois, Iowa and Missouri is still small--since 2003, only two dozen sightings have been confirmed in the Midwest--Clay Nielsen, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University and head researcher at the nonprofit Cougar Network, is gearing up for the possibility that more are on the way. With a grant from his university, Nielsen is starting the first large-scale research into the likely patterns of the cougar's Midwestern migration...
...fable. Bond's libretto tells the story of a pacifist band of petit bourgeois cats who have formed the Royal Society for the Protection of Rats and have been rearing a young orphan mouse. The plot concerns the ill-starred triangle of Tom (Baritone Scott Reeve), Minette (Soprano Inga Nielsen) and her husband Lord Puff (Tenor Michael Myers). Seeing the fatal outcome of the affair, the mouse Louise wisely decides not to rely on the professed good intentions of natural enemies...
...Seinfeld” and the birth of “Survivor,” the turn of the millennium became a turn of the screw for television comedy. An influx of reality shows and big-budget action dramas sent traditional, punchline-driven programs straight into the Nielsen basement. Last year saw the cast of “Friends” drink their final cup of Central Perk?...
...steadily eroding the networks' share of the TV audience, and that erosion is especially acute in the summer. Just 35.4% of the nation's TV viewers were watching network programming on a typical evening in the summer of 1984, down from 36.6% in '83 and 37.4% in '82. Nielsen figures for this June and July show the decline is continuing. Fearing that reruns are driving viewers away, the networks this summer are launching an unprecedented wave of new programming. Eight series are debuting for limited runs of five to seven weeks, along with an unusual number of first...
Galloway is CEO of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, a management-consulting firm, and former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the first woman ever to serve in that office