Word: projects
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...always been cool to be in Generation X. Wearing black Gap turtlenecks and sipping lattes, the archetypal Gen Xers project an image that is hip and urbane. Disaffected with politics, cynical of pop culture, they are eager to catalogue the offenses of the baby boomers who inflated the debt and pitted the ozone layer. Their angst for the future is contagious. Until you see its paradox...
...York City's autocratic numero uno Rudy Giuliani is pressing ahead with plans to build a mayoral fortress in the World Trade Center, a bulletproof bunker with a hotline to the White House. But the project isn't getting the respect a real grown-up $15 million command-and-control center deserves. Lefty lawyer and radio commentator Ron Kuby has dubbed the facility the "Nut Shell." The New York Daily News is comparing it to Saddam Hussein's bunker, and other detractors say it will cost tens of millions of dollars more than Giuliani projects. Yet the mayor who squeezed...
...tribesmen stopped growing opium poppies altogether, but when an alternative-development program that had been promised was delayed two years, the tribesmen went back to poppies. Laos, which used to produce 3.5 tons of opium annually, recently switched to coffee, rice and chili farming under a U.N. pilot project. So far this year the Lao have cut opium production to a few hundred pounds. In Peru crop substitution has cut coca production 40%. "A million dollars," says Arlacchi, "can have 100 times the effect in Peru or Bolivia that it has by the time the drug reaches a consuming country...
...murder. "This is the wrong side of Ventura Boulevard for a celebrity." The perspective pervaded his late-blooming career. After leaving SNL in 1994 and despite landing a deal with NBC to star in his own sitcom, Hartman chose to join the underrated ensemble show NewsRadio in 1995, a project he continually championed and protected. At the time he said, "I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams--financially and the amount of fun I have in my life...
Perhaps all the newfound interactivity will work on our brains in more salutary ways. This is your brain on TV. And this is your brain on "Very Distributed Storytelling," as one futuristic project is called at M.I.T.'s Media Lab. Any questions...