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Music aficionados, don't touch that dial: 100.3 Jack FM is in random-shuffle mode, and a finicky channel changer might miss the next segment of generation-spanning sounds, which at noon includes Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Men at Work. Jack FM is an example of terrestrial radio's answer to the satellite challenge, a hodgepodge of sound and attitude that marries prolonged music streams--sans DJ interruptions and caller requests--with limited commercials and shorter ad blocks. And when there are commercial breaks, a Jack announcer all but apologizes. "Time to pay the bills," he says...
...mushroom cloud of suspicion hangs over this segment of Oppenheimer’s life. In 1943 he made the mistake of spending a night with his former lover, the sometimes lesbian Tatlock. Given her Red leanings, that dalliance constituted a clear breach of security. (Half a year later, Tatlock was dead by her own hand, although some still speculate that she was murdered.) Then came truly devastating revelations of the “Chevalier affair.” In winter 1942, Oppenheimer’s friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him on behalf of another Communist about turning over secret...
...soon found the kid making suggestions about industrial tax rates. Video games, Johnson notes, impel us to learn because playing them means not just following rules but also discovering what the rules are. And these rules can be staggeringly complicated. Johnson unpacks the nested objectives of just one segment of a Zelda video game with enough detail to bury the canard that it is "passive" entertainment...
Most attention-getting, however, is Solondz’s device of having the main character be played by seven actresses and one actor over eight segments, from an overweight African-American woman to a Caucasian red-head to “Single White Female” Jennifer Jason Leigh. During the ninth segment, all the actors appear...
...from a videocassette of the best seller Megatrends, one of a growing number of popular books being used in taped form in management-training programs. The next face on the screen belongs not to Darth Vader but to Author John Naisbitt, who explains the lesson of the space segment: executives must use their instincts to harness technology...