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Things show little sign of changing this fall. Eligible voter turnout has been in steady decline since a peak of 63 percent in 1960, with the largest losses coming from minority and low-income groups and young people. At the time, this statistic produced a flurry of articles from activists, economists and naysayers, jockeying to correctly diagnose the apathy of the American public...
...late '80s, Krayzelburg's parents were so worried about the deteriorating Soviet system that they applied for exit visas. The family, including Lenny's sister Marsha, finally left the U.S.S.R. in 1989 and landed in Los Angeles. At what should have been the peak of his career, Krayzelburg instead found himself struggling to learn a new language, getting a maintenance job at the local Jewish community center and swimming only a couple of hours a week...
WHAT'S IN A NAME? If you thought dotcom marketing insanity reached its peak with the naked guy in those Buy.com ads, think again. IUMA.com the Internet Underground Music Archive, is offering $5,000 cash to any parents willing to give their baby the first name Iuma. So far, no fewer than five babies, including little Iuma Ross, right, of Williamsburg, Pa., have benefited from the campaign. At least they didn't name the kid Yahoo...
...This may go down as the year that viewers finally turned against the sappy human-interest features that supposedly draw non-sports fans into the Games. The profiles perhaps reached their lugubrious peak when NBC covered South Africa's Terence Parkin, a deaf swimmer, in a report that reached new heights of high-school-newspaper-level writing. "What must it be like to swim before thousands of fans and never hear the cheers?" NBC asked. "He'd like to make some noise this week - the kind that everyone can't help but hear." (Later, we heard he would "visually watch...
...late '80s, Krayzelburg's parents were so worried about the deteriorating Soviet system that they applied for exit visas. The family, including Lenny's sister Marsha, finally left the USSR in 1989 and landed in Los Angeles. At what should have been the peak of his career, Krayzelburg instead found himself struggling to learn a new language, getting a maintenance job at the local Jewish community center and swimming only a couple of hours a week...