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...OFFENDED BY THE CHARACTERIZATION OF HAM RADIO AS a "faintly embarrassing hobby" in the article "Blogs Have Their Day" [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. Ham radio operators--I have been one for 47 years--provided emergency communication after the Indian Ocean tsunami. They have supplied similar public service in many other situations, including the Florida hurricanes. Our systems include thousands of repeaters that receive and transmit throughout the U.S., connections with the Internet and more. Ham radio bridges the gap between countries and peoples; there are more than 750,000 operators in the U.S. and many thousands more overseas...
BEST PUNCH: The Ocean's Twelve star responded with a letter inviting O'Reilly to be a presenter on the program and follow up on the fund raising. "This is your chance to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is," he said...
WINNER: All of humanity. O'Reilly accepted Clooney's offer to appear alongside stars like Jay Leno and Christina Aguilera. Maybe the finger-wagging host can be in Ocean's Thirteen...
Still, Simon, a father of four young children whose weekly family grocery shopping doubles as a market-research field trip, doesn't take anything for granted. "We're like a little speedboat circling around an ocean liner, so we have to be more innovative," he says. In the past year, Hain has joined forces with two U.S. institutions--providing its Yves veggie burgers as part of the McVeggie at select McDonald's locations and working with Sesame Street on co-branded Earth's Best products. Earth's Best baby food is seen as a key to the company's success...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...