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...professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California, attributes this to a greater religious openness in American culture. Boyd draws a connection to TV's coverage of Pope John Paul II's death, which he says made it seem "as though everyone in America had converted overnight to Catholicism...
Sick of wiping out? The Surf Diva School in La Jolla, Calif., runs week-long overnight camps for women. On the East Coast, the Next Generation Surf School in Cocoa Beach, Fla., offers coed day programs, and the overnight Surf Camp in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., also takes teens deep-sea fishing...
...wikis built on that idea. A wiki is a deceptively simple piece of software (little more than five lines of computer code) that you can download for free and use to make a website that can be edited by anyone you like. Need to solve a thorny business problem overnight and all members of your team are in different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC...
...steak houses and French restaurants. If the body belonged to Clint Eastwood or Sophia Loren, it was interesting. Otherwise, except in bed, it was ignored by the public in favor of more important pursuits like winning the space race or building the New Society ... [The fitness obsession] seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could...
...MEIR AMAR, 31, the wife and son of Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of two leaders of the state religious establishment; with abducting the Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated in the attack...