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...actually, to call Lost one of TV's best shows. It's a fine show on the level of character and writing, but what makes it a classic is that it's the finest interactive game ever to appear in your living room once a week. An elaborate fractal pattern of intersecting stories concerning plane survivors on a not-quite-deserted island, a secretive international organization and a monster made of smoke--Lost only begins with the 60 minutes you see on TV. Its mysteries, clues and literary-historical allusions demand research, repeated viewing, freeze-framing and endless online discussions...
...seeks to emulate the Turkish rather than the Algerian model. If King Mohammed VI allows the PJD's evolution to continue - the party is currently the main opposition to a ruling coalition largely composed of nationalist and socialist parties - this may be good for Morocco and establish a pattern for other Arab countries to follow...
...harder than you think to say hello to your mother--at least in terms of the work your brain has to do. A glimpse of Mom must first register on your occipital lobes as a pattern of light and shadow. From there it is relayed to your memory center, where it is identified by comparison with every other face you've ever seen. You must then summon the speech centers in your frontal lobes, which recruit your breath and muscles and at last allow you to utter the words...
...when a star's personal demons rear up in the form of a police blotter. Robert Downey Jr.'s '90s jail stints, Christian Slater's 59-day stay behind bars on assault charges in 1998 and Lindsay Lohan's alleged coke-fueled car chase this summer all followed a pattern of prior troublesome behavior. Each performer was known to have spent time in treatment for addiction. For these celebrities, a mug shot somehow seems as appropriate a career visual as a red carpet wave...
...those visits, the Food Network's site (www.foodtv.com) is the most popular, accounting for 12.6% of all visits for the category, over three times the size in visits as the next most popular, Allrecipes.com. The popularity of the Food Network's site reveals a likely behavioral pattern - we're watching cooking shows and, unlike the old days, we don't have to sit there with pen and paper in hand. The combination of television cooking and a website that provides the recipes featured on those shows is a powerful combination...