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Nonetheless, NPR, PRI and many large and medium-size stations have surprisingly healthy balance sheets. Though NPR has suffered a 40% drop in corporate underwriting revenues, from a peak of $33 million in 2000, its total revenue has fallen only 6% and is projected to rise in 2003. NPR plugged much of its shortfall by raising carriage fees and wheedling new cash from big charitable donors. (It recently won a $14 million MacArthur Foundation grant.) NPR has also started selling ad space on its headquarters building, and is widening its brand with two channels on Sirius Satellite Radio...
...little to the east is Amedi, a vacation spot for Iraqi Kurds because of its dramatic location perched at the top of a peak. There the Turkish presence is also obvious. In what looks like it used to be a parking lot right in the middle of town, between the vegetable bazaar and the local police station, are a handful of Turkish tanks and 20 or so soldiers. We ask a policeman if there had been any new arrivals. "No," he said. "No one here would accept them...
Rumors, of course, tend to beget more rumors when things don’t go well. So when the Harvard men’s hockey team struggled during the second half of the 2001-2002 regular season, the ping rate on negative puck-talk was at its peak, and criticism was mostly directed at the Crimson’s marquee players...
...foreign stars. "Basketball is a universal language, and it's about to bloom on a global basis." Stern is counting on that, especially at a time when the NBA's popularity, at least judging by TV ratings and attendance figures, seems to have reached its peak...
...sleeping roommate. True, when launching Internet Explorer, I like to get up and fix myself a cup of tea while the window slowly opens. Impatient friends always choose someone else’s computer to check their e-mail. Sigh. My love affair with computers actually reached its peak circa 1990, with my Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy. My parents generously bestowed upon...