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...network also announced several new comedies. "Drew Carey's Green Screen" is an improv comedy show in which the scenarios acted out by the comedians are illustrated by animators. It's for everybody who loved "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" but found it too taxing on the imagination. Jeff Foxworthy, meanwhile, returns to the screen in "Blue Collar TV," a standup comedy/parody show on which he will continue to prove that redneck jokes are not offensive as long as you pay an actual Southerner to make them for you. On "Shacking Up," Fran Drescher plays a mother who shocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The WB Wants Young People. ABC Will Take Anyone Who'll Have It | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

Technical glitches with the computerized database itself caused students’ records to disappear or to be associated with the wrong school, users of a pilot program complained. And because the system was used to screen for dubious records, the bug-ridden system could have brought hundreds of legitimate students under scrutiny by federal investigators...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Foreign Scholars Hindered | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

...gunship; shooting one breaks it into smaller chunks, and each time a bullet hits one of those chunks it breaks into even smaller meteorites - each of which can destroy the gunship. To complicate matters, a foreign element in the form of a rival space gunship periodically charges across the screen firing at your own. That's very much like the situation in Iraq as the U.S. hurtles toward the June 30th handover: Taking care of one big problem seems only to present you with more, tougher smaller problems, and every now and then some outside force comes through taking potshots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Insurgents Look to the Future | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

...Office" any good, you ask? You'll have to wait. At the upfronts, networks only screen short previews of their new shows, so any critical judgments I make this week would be sorely uninformed. (Which is not to say I won't make some anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC: Nothin' But Conventional | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

...Vetterli developed the SimulCam blueprint. Ayer and his brother Jean-Marie, then a Swisscom executive and now CEO of Dartfish Europe, spent Sunday dinners discussing potential applications for SimulCam. They sensed an opportunity on television. Says Serge: "What we saw happening on TV during sport competitions, such as split screen and instant replay, wasn't good enough." Their idea was to layer the positions of two athletes at the same point of, say, a ski race so TV commentators could easily explain and viewers could easily see the differences. Jean-Marie quit his job and took Bergonzoli, a colleague, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold-Medal Tech | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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