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...fishermen and -women into a huge new market that would rival NASCAR in popular appeal and in its ability to attract corporate sponsors who would want to reach them. "They'd never been marketed to as a consumer group," says Jacobs, who knows sports, having once been majority owner of the Minnesota Vikings...
...Gary Groth and Mike Catron purchased the rights to a dying fanzine called "The Nostalgia Journal," and published it as "The New Nostalgia Journal." Soon renamed the "The Comics Journal," it began by publishing an expose of the sleazy dealings the publishers had with another fanzine owner. Unprecedentedly juicy for a "fan" magazine but way overlong and self-involved, the piece immediately established the contradictory nature of the "Journal" that continues to this...
...intelligence's listening division, Unit 8200, computers scan the calls for key words that signal conversations worth a hearing by one of the hundreds of soldiers stationed there. Even with no one on the line, a cell phone emits a signal every few seconds, so Israel can trace the owner constantly. Assassinations are carried out with the aid of unmanned drones that fly high and send back detailed surveillance photos...
SUSPENDED. PETER BART, 69, Hollywood influence monger and former producer; from his post as editor of Variety, the entertainment industry's most powerful trade publication. Its owner, Cahners Business Information, said it would investigate charges made in the latest issue of Los Angeles magazine, in which anonymous sources claim that in meetings at Variety, his language was filled with offensive remarks about women, gays and minorities. The magazine quotes him as describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff...
TEST THE WATERS Katherine Crowley, a New York City psychotherapist and co-owner of Small Business Strategy, a consultancy, suggests that couples who are thinking of going into a business in which the wife is the boss might first try putting her in charge of a shared household project like painting a room or organizing closets. Taking on a business-related project together before making it an official work relationship can also be instructive. Each partner will see how the other works, and can judge whether their differences are tolerable...