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Celebrated British filmmaker and author Michael Wood discusses his new book Shakespeare, which corresponds to his upcoming PBS documentary chronicling the life of the bard. 7 p.m. Free. The Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...telly must pay the British government a "license fee" of nearly $200 a year to fund the BBC, which adds up to a $4.5 billion annual subsidy. Americans would probably dump their sets in the Boston harbor if Washington forced them to spend that kind of money for PBS. But by and large, Brits love their Beeb; 93% tune in at least once a week. Audience satisfaction, which started at 6.4 (out of 10) when it was first measured in 2000, peaked at 7.1 this year...
About a mile off the twisting, two-lane road to the south of Central City, Pa., set back in the woods along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes...
...will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a glimpse of this heavenly show. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute science museum and host of a show on the Mars encounter that will be broadcast over many PBS stations this week...
...Today may never play as well on Park Avenue. It is not the erudite, exhaustive--sometimes exhausting--Times, but neither is it trying to be, any more than CNN Headline News is trying to be the PBS News Hour. And for all the praise USA Today has got for its longer investigative stories--that is, for being like "respectable" newspapers--reaffirming its commitment to accessible news is just as laudable. The paper helped broaden the definition of news beyond the preoccupations of elites: the lead story in its Money section is more likely to be about rising cable rates than...