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...viewers' kitchens? Minorities are best represented on workplace dramas (ER, NYPD Blue), but sitcoms, which focus more on family and society, tend to be colorless, color blind or awkwardly color conscious. (A rare exception is the wonderfully nuanced relationship between the Hill clan and Laotian next-door neighbors the Souphanousinphones on Fox's King of the Hill.) And if these casting decisions are injurious to minorities, they're insulting to whites, who the networks essentially imply are retrograde racists, years after warming to Jefferson, Huxtable and Urkel. And what if--God help us--they're right...
...from Kansas eastward through the Ohio Valley and parts of the Southeast. Utilities are scrambling to keep up with the service needs generated by record air-conditioning usage. And that?s not all. Although the hot weather has people soaking through high humidity, rain has been just about as rare as a snowflake in July. From Massachusetts to Virginia, near-drought conditions are shriveling streams, burning crops and worrying water officials...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataDays like this have been rare lately, though, and one gloomy Tuesday hardly means they?ll be coming thick and fast in the near future. "The economy is strong, the Fed won?t raise rates in August, and earnings, as a whole, have been excellent," says TIME senior economic correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "There?s no real reason to be concerned about the stock market...
...sure, what propelled the Apollo crewmen to the moon was more than just "Kilroy was here" egoism. Over the course of the half a dozen landing missions, the astronauts pried loose and carried home 838.2 lbs. of lunar rocks, providing Earthbound scientists with rare tissue samples of a nearby body whose geological origins mirror the solar system's own. Priceless as the artifacts were, however, in the days of Apollo, geology was always trumped by poetry, and everybody within the space community knew...
...finesse still give defenders the shakes. As the team's best known player--a distaff version of Michael Jordan--she had the burden of not only scoring goals but also being Miss Publicity. A self-described emotional child from a military family who lost an older brother to a rare blood disease (and still wears his initials on her soccer shoes), Hamm found the soccer field a perfect outlet for her inner fire. She's been on the national team since...