Word: offshoots
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Although John Edwards isn't officially running for office, he is already courting a key constituency for a possible presidential bid in '08: left-leaning bloggers. Not only did the former VP candidate spend the week guest-blogging on TPMCAFE, a new offshoot of the popular TALKING POINTS MEMO, but amid his postings on such issues as poverty and globalization, another blog disclosed that he had been the host of an off-the-record dinner with several bloggers at his house in Washington. "Gaining the loyalty of bloggers," noted TAPPED, "is not that hard to do if you just talk...
...news broadcasts to Uzbekistan, including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon...
...offshoot of the remake is the prequel, which takes a famous character and asks, How'd he get that way? George Lucas has traced his signature hero and villain back to their boyhoods--Indy with the Young Indiana Jones TV series, Darth Vader with three Star Wars episodes. But the megamovie template for a coming-of-age fantasy saga is the 2002 Spider-Man, which earned $800 million worldwide and spawned its own robust franchise. If the strategy works, it feeds Hollywood's itch to be endlessly self-derivative. First comes the remake--or, in mogul-speak, the reimagining--then...
...connection with its cultural roots. "I think the allure of belly dance is related to its sensuality and a fascination with the beauty and the music," says Nina Costanza, who teaches and performs under the name Amar in New York City. "The fitness thing," she says, is just "an offshoot." Even if that's what's packing them...
Eleven years ago, an obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivered a brand-spanking-new franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with...