Word: screens
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Like the stampede the moment the doors open for a Filene's Basement white sale, the crush of women at theaters this weekend to see the big-screen version of Sex and the City should be intense. On Tuesday night, for the film's invitational premiere, swarms of femi-nests buzzed expectantly outside Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. And when many of the ticket-holders couldn't get into the 6,000-seat Hall because of overbooking, the anger and hurt spilled onto Sixth Avenue, literally stopping traffic. Near the front of the line of rejectees, according...
...giant ships from Asia steam into the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach laden with flat-screen TVs, flip-flops, copying machines, nail clippers, Thomas the Tank Engines and all the other necessities of modern life. They leave port a few days later loaded mainly with empty containers...
...adoptions - those in which adoptive parents and adopted children are of different races - in the U.S. over the past two decades. In its report, "Finding Families for African American Children," the institute argues that race should be a factor in adoption placement, and that agencies should be allowed to screen non-black families who want to adopt black children - for their ability to teach self-esteem and defense against racism, and for their level of interaction with other black people. The authors' recommendations reflect the findings that transracial adoptees report struggling to fit in with their peers, their communities...
...Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pledged $500 million over five years to fight the epidemic, with the aim of halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2012. It's obvious that families and officials have begun to understand that the American environment - which promotes fattening fast food and sedentary screen-sucking - needs to be changed to save the country's children...
Though he pioneered product placement in Hollywood, Warren Cowan's considerable influence was felt mainly behind the silver screen. As a publicist to the stars during a career spanning more than 60 years, he represented such Tinseltown titans as Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor. When asked to pick his favorite client from among the list of luminaries, Cowan famously replied, "The next...