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Some people find the whole process offensive. "Cookies represent a way of watching consumers without their consent, and that is a fairly frightening phenomenon," says Nick Grouf, CEO of Firefly, a Boston company that makes software offering an alternative approach to profiling, known as "intelligent agents...
Still, why should a regional phenomenon affect weather around the world? The reason, say scientists, is the extra heat. Like fresh coal tossed on a fire, it creates more and larger storms. And as the warm water spreads into the central and eastern Pacific, these storms inevitably follow in its path, moving the tropical storm belt from one part of the Pacific to another. The rearrangement has reverberations throughout the atmosphere, causing droughts in places as far-flung as northeastern Brazil, southern Africa and Australia, while other regions, from California to Cuba, can be hit by torrential rains. These effects...
Whitehead, however, regards this promise of self-renewal through divorce as the original sin of recent decades. She calls the phenomenon "expressive divorce" and locates its origins in postwar prosperity. For Whitehead there's a close connection between soaring divorce rates and middle-class narcissism, and though divorce rates have actually plateaued, the siren song of personal liberation sounds as sweet as ever. Pollitt is contemptuous of the notion. She says, "The picture is that people are going along married and in a state of, if not ecstasy, then reasonable content. And then somebody decides to be selfish, frivolous...
...answer that question, we have to go back in television history to 1989, when The Arsenio Hall Show went on the air. It was a broadcast phenomenon, bringing new viewers--young, lots of them black--to late night for the first time. Hall respected many of the genre's conventions, but his ethnicity, effusive personality and mix of guests broke with tradition. Also, Hall didn't use a desk. Curled up in his easy chair, he was loose and open and schmoozerific. Since his show was canceled in 1994, though, no one has served his audience, and now the producers...
...been recognized as a revolutionary director of post-modern cinema. Lionized for redefining the independent movie spirit. And canonized for turning a quirky little film made for just $8 million into a worldwide box-office phenomenon that took in an astounding $213 million. What could you possibly do for a really cool follow...