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...disappear from Movielink's catalog altogether 90 days later, when they enter the premium-cable window. Because channels like HBO and Starz! offer lucrative licensing deals, Movielink has not been able to compete in the latter window. "We'll see this business become a true mass market," says Jim Ramo, CEO of Movielink. "It's just a matter of time...
...Joshua Ramo was a hobbyist pilot who found himself mysteriously drawn to aerobatics, which he compares to aerial figure skating, with the following caveat: "When was the last time Kristy Yamaguchi burst into flames in the middle of a Salchow?" In No Visible Horizon (Simon & Schuster; 273 pages), Ramo, a former TIME editor, tells the story of his love affair with a sport that in a bad year, by his estimate, can kill 1 in 30 of its practitioners. Ramo buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour...
...trains, Ramo also tries to figure out what drives him to pursue such an arcane, expensive and deadly pastime. "What is extreme flying for me but a kind of dialogue?" he asks himself. "A conversation with myself about what I am capable of." Ramo's reverence for his fellow stunt pilots borders on the religious--he compares them variously with Yukio Mishima, John Coltrane and Pablo Picasso--and his lyrical flights sometimes lose the reader in the clouds. But when he's in the cockpit performing feats of gritty derring-do (and occasionally derring-don't), his airplane groaning...
...JOSHUA COOPER RAMO is the assistant managing editor who has overseen TIME's international coverage. He has recently focused on the hunt for bin Laden and conditions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Chat with him on Friday, 8 p.m. E.T. on AOL, Keyword: Live...
World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo came to understand the problems of AIDS in South Africa particularly well in December, when he traveled to KwaZulu-Natal to work in a swamped but heroic AIDS hospice. Working as a volunteer instead of as a journalist gave him an unusually close look at what it was like to live with and die of AIDS. "I'm a big believer that if you see a crime being committed and you don't do something about it, you are as guilty as the criminal," he says. "What's going on in Africa right...