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...Others have argued that this obsession with the fabulous is part of the dumbing down of America. What is your reaction to that? I don?t know if that?s necessarily where that comes from. My whole theory is that the rise of reality TV is when the fever-pitch need for celebrity news started rising as well. Reality TV breaks down the barrier between being a regular person and being a celebrity. One day you?re a college student and the next day you?re on the Real World and people recognize you all over the world. I think...
...other conditions. José Emilio Batista, M.D., Ph.D. Barcelona, Spain Field of Dreams Despite the continuing inquest into Zidane's head butting, the problem with Italy's victory is that decisions worth millions are left to an individual who can't always be right: the referee [July 17]. The pitch is too big, the action is too fast, and the players are too cunning for a single referee to make fair and foolproof judgments. Video refereeing is long overdue. The system transformed rugby into the best sport in the world and left football in the Dark Ages. The referee...
...Despite the continuing inquest into Zidane's head butting, the problem with Italy's victory is that decisions worth millions are left to an individual who can't always be right: the referee. The pitch is too big, the action is too fast and the players are too cunning for a single referee to make fair and foolproof judgments. Video refereeing is long overdue. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally flawed. Football is a great sport, but the professional matches are a disappointment, since the best actors and the luckiest thugs win millions while...
...pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through the lanes until they find themselves trapped...
...drive past, I can hear a gun battle somewhere--the deep rumble of U.S. military M-16s and the higher-pitch clatter of AK-47s. The gunfire is a momentary distraction for Wisam, my driver, who is telling me about yesterday's atrocity--66 people killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself in a crowded market in the Shi'ite neighborhood of Sadr City. Last year that giant slum was the safest district in Baghdad. Now I mentally add it to the list of neighborhoods I can enter only at great risk...