Word: printing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MILK? CAMPAIGN Unlike the print ads that force attractive celebrities to don unsightly white mustaches, the series of television spots promoting the joys of milk consumption are gems of sketch comedy. The best has a smug yuppie hit by a truck and beamed to another world replete with yummy cookies and a beckoning refrigerator stocked with milk. Heaven? Nope, all the containers are empty. Hell...
...Just ask Richard Paul Evans, who has plenty of reason to celebrate this holiday season. His novella, The Christmas Box, an inspirational Christmas story he originally published himself, is sitting at or near the top of the nation's best-seller lists, with more than 2 million copies in print. A TV-movie version starring Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas will air Sunday on CBS. And a prequel will arrive in bookstores in time for Easter and Mother...
Evans first showed his tale to friends in Salt Lake City, who loved it. But regional publishers weren't interested. So he used his own money to print the book and his experience in the ad business to promote it. He was tireless. "The war was won in the trenches," he says, "from one bookstore to another." The book grew from a regional phenomenon into a national hit, reaching the paperback best-seller lists last year. That prompted Simon & Schuster to pay $4.2 million for The Christmas Box and its prequel, Timepiece, putting Evans into Marcia Clark's stellar company...
...courts have not yet ruled on whether the Internet is a print medium like a newspaper, protected from government censorship, or a broadcast medium like TV, whose content is closely regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Thoughtful members of Congress, led by Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...
Matsuguchi's misconduct was "intentional falsification of data in two autoradiographs prepared for a presentation and in altering a print of an immunoblot of a paper in the journal [of the European Molecular Biology Organization]," according to Lyle W. Bivens, the director of the NIH Office of Research Integrity...