Word: pushes
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Dysson, it turns out, is the brainchild of LaFong, the Bay Area team of writer Michael Kaplan and director John Sanborn, who had already created one CD-ROM (Psychic Detective) and two Web-based fictions and were seeking new ways to push the envelope of the Internet. Their vision for Dysson was to turn a simple E-mail exchange into an "immersive" experience in which the audience helps create the story by becoming characters in an ongoing drama. "My desire is for the Internet and television to merge," says Sanborn. "What could be better than a TV show where...
...thinks the push abroad, and the complementary balancing act domestically, will be easy. Says Bradley Bertoch, a venture capitalist (and nonpracticing Mormon) who specializes in attracting money to Utah: "The church needs to recruit adequate labor to drive its business growth beyond the borders of the U.S. But at the same time it has to make sure that it doesn't lose control of the home ground. It's the same problem of resource allocation in new markets faced by any multinational...
...that time, Shelton had moved into his job as Special Ops commander, the fruit of Senator Cohen's 1986 push to take all the military's commandos and put them under a single boss to reduce interservice wrangling. The move succeeded. Now, by putting this unconventional warrior in charge of all four branches, Cohen may be signaling that the retooling of the military can finally begin in earnest...
...Texas may have come up with at least a partial solution to the Lyme problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this is that it's safe...
...both of these eateries--housed in soon-to-be-developed buildings--may serve their last meals in the next few months, as renovation costs push rents higher than the mom-and-pops of the Square can afford...