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...callers have surfed to www.broadpoint.com to fill out a detailed questionnaire and obtain a PIN for the 800 service, known as FreeWay. Of course, with long-distance rates already as low as 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute, listening to yet another Blockbuster or T.G.I. Friday's pitch may seem too high a price...
...Stockton White, owner of the Lazy Heart Guest Lodge and a volunteer on the Park County search-and-rescue team, is less romantic but just as hopeful. Instead of a softly lighted millennial tea party, White foresees a bucket-brigade atmosphere. "I'm relying on the community. Everyone will pitch in, I expect, fixing each other's houses and so on. That's why we live out here...
...Pitch a story to any editor and the first question is likely to be: What's the peg? Not so at the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA's longtime editor, Dr. George Lundberg, was fired on Friday for having apparently linked the publication date of an article that surveyed how college students define "having sex" to President Clinton's impeachment trial. The AMA blamed Lundberg for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The incident is fascinating, says Time medical columnist Christine Gorman, "because there...
...Bowl slot goes to Family Guy, the creation of Seth MacFarlane, a hitherto unknown artist who was just a year out of the Rhode Island School of Design when Fox shrewdly plucked him from the Hanna-Barbera animation stables. "Stunningly clever" is the way Darnell describes MacFarlane's initial pitch, at which the wunderkind performed all the voices himself. "Two weeks later we ordered 13 episodes, and Seth became a star," says Darnell. A seven-minute presentation reel the network took to last May's "up-front" screenings for advertisers, he adds, "was far and away the funniest thing...
From a global standpoint Europe's resistance to genetically modified crops is a peculiar case: a complex amalgam of bad timing, conspiracy theories and allegiance to traditions, with perhaps a dash of economic protectionism thrown in. Yet the Continental food fight that continues to pitch up scare headlines in Europe may herald what genetic engineering can expect to encounter as it moves more broadly into pharmaceuticals and medical procedures. It's not just a matter of consumers' smelling something very fishy in the idea of tomatoes given an antifreeze-producing gene from the winter flounder. More broadly, society--at least...