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...because of his high visibility on campus as the leader of the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), an improvisational comedy troupe. He has also been involved in several dramatic productions and served for a year on the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club board of directors. And he admits that he just plain knows a lot of people...
...secretary has] absolutely the most difficult position because you always have so many activist groups trying to reach you on everything from abortion to AIDS to welfare to animal rights," said former HHS secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan to Cleveland's Plain Dealer. "You get picketed and sued more than anyone else...
...many big, fat, fact-crammed current biographies: life is long, art short. Such narrative behemoths can, of course, contain much of value, particularly for readers who are passionately curious about the subjects. Admirers of Mary McCarthy, for example, would not wish Frances Kiernan's recent, well-received Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy any shorter than its 768 pages. But what of those who are interested in learning more about the life of a notable person but unwilling to sacrifice a significant swatch of their own lives in the quest...
Back in the 1940s, when plain old X rays were considered high tech, shoe salesclerks would often determine children's shoe size by X-raying their feet. Never mind that the same thing could have been done with a wooden ruler. Fluoroscopes, as the X-ray devices were called, were promoted as the scientific way to guarantee a proper fit. By the mid-1950s, however, it was clear that many fluoroscopes were badly maintained and ended up subjecting customers--not to mention salesclerks--to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation. Soon the machines were banned...
...commercials that are the most interesting part, though: the really important advertising is hiding in plain sight on the field. The Microsoft Mustangs are playing the GM Generals at Cisco Stadium in a town called Ciscoville--formerly known as Philadelphia. Corporations will pay big money for the right to digitize logos onto the T shirts of the fans in the stands. Logos of sponsors won't be painted on stadium signs or on the field anymore. Thanks to a trend that is already happening, they'll be digitally embedded in the image on your screen. The logos you see will...