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Meanwhile, ABC, the chief beneficiary of make-a-wish TV, will rub that lamp several more times. On The Scholar (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), 10 honor students vie for a college scholarship worth as much as $240,000. On this summer's inspirationally themed Brat Camp, troubled kids have their lives turned around by counseling. And for viewers who like to see heartstrings tugged literally as well as metaphorically, next season The Miracle Workers will give away medical care. A man gets treatment for severe tics so he can hold his baby again; a boy gets cochlear implants to hear...
...cute, modest and not intimidating,"says Mével. Retailing for $120, Nabaztag is scheduled for launch in France at the end of June, and the firm is planning for a global release next year. Will the rabbit catch on? The folks at Violet know whose foot to rub...
Therein lies the rub. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's former editor in chief (and now a lecturer at Ohio State) still loves the site but thinks his fellow professionals have a point. "The wide-open nature of the Internet encourages people to disregard the importance of expertise," he says. Sanger does not let his students use Wikipedia for their papers, partly because he knows they could confirm anything they like by adding it themselves...
...returned to Britain the talk of the town. The studio audience at a bbc current-affairs program greeted him with rapturous applause. On the floor of the House of Commons, M.P.s, who once might have steered clear, pushed close as if hoping a little of Galloway's mojo might rub off on them. The Senate committee's evidence - papers from the Iraqi Oil Ministry that named Galloway as a recipient of Saddam's oil allocations, corroborated by former regime officials now under arrest in Iraq - didn't prove he actually received any oil or money, directly or indirectly. Galloway...
...apparatus was gone thanks to a tear-down crew that didn’t sleep. And yet, in exchange for these efforts, The Crimson responded with an inflammatory front page article focusing exclusively on a minute portion of partygoers who reacted to the foam (“Lather Suds Rub Partiers Wrong Way,” News, Apr. 19), a malicious (albeit facetious) editorial and an unduly harsh April 21 Fifteen Minutes party report card (apparently also meant in jest). These articles make spiteful accusations in the spirit of parody without ever mentioning what they assume the whole campus already...