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...Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire. While they found general support for the things Gore stood for--and for President Clinton as well--they were shocked by how little people knew about Gore. So in mid-October they hit the airwaves of New Hampshire and Iowa with a 60-sec. commercial designed to fill in the basics: Gore had a family, had been in Vietnam, had worked as a journalist. The ads were broadcast for weeks before Bradley's first spots went...
Liar, beware. In announcing a settlement with the Georgetown crew--who neither admitted nor denied the allegations and promised not to violate securities law in the future--the SEC was showcasing a stepped-up effort to crack down on rampant Internet stock swindlers. With the Net now America's stock-tip central, boiler rooms have become inefficient relics...
...meter run, Taylor (54.33 sec) and Schutte (56.24 sec) finished second and seventh, respectively, garnering ten of the Crimson's 16 total points...
PSSSST!!! Kids love to share secrets, and now they can do it in high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away...
Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet...