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In the basic criticism of reality TV - that it makes people famous for nothing rather than rewarding hard work - is a Puritan streak that is as old as Plymouth Rock: Seek thou not the Folly of Celebrity, but apply thyself with Humility to thy Industry! Well, that's one strain...
The fixes proposed in your cover story to reduce head injuries in football are all worthy considerations [Feb. 8]. I have a couple more. Rugby players tackle and engage at full speed without equipment. They are taught early on not only to keep their head up but also to keep...
Nothing gets on the menu at McDonald's without the approval of hundreds of people: marketers, franchise representatives, engineers who specialize in food hold times, operations managers who know precisely how far refrigerated trucks can drive before food rots and money people who have read reams of market research that...
But as I began to observe firsthand the scope of the devastation, it didn't take long for me to realize my experiment was not bringing me any closer to the Haitians' experience. Even if I were able to approximate the feeling in their bellies, that was nothing compared with...
A more realistic view might be the one dramatized in Simon's HBO series, The Wire. In 60 episodes spread across five seasons from 2002 to 2008, the program humanized this tangled question of crime fighting with penetrating sophistication. CompStat-obsessed politicians fostered numbers-fudging in the ranks. Cool-headed...