Word: shells
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...theater world is still a little shell-shocked from that Broadway skyrocket known as "The Producers." The Mel Brooks musical based on his 1968 movie opened three weeks ago to the sort of rapturous reviews (and frenzy for tickets) that even Rodgers & Hammerstein would have envied. I don?t want to be the one to rain on this party (heck, that?s my quote - "A gift from the showbiz Gods!" - outside the St. James theater), but maybe a few cautionary words are in order, to try to bring everyone down to earth...
...believe a "Celebrity Survivor" when I actually see the emaciated husk of George Clooney licking rice dregs out of a coconut shell. For one thing, while I and the rest of civilization would absolutely watch, it would also effectively be the end of the series. You could never go back to real people once you've gone the "Battle of the Network Stars" route. What's more, given real stars' tight schedules and accustomedness to pampering, the danger is CBS would either have to water down the competition into a bogus vacation, or turn it into a "Hollywood Squares" full...
...tools to do it," says Orly Avitzur, a Tarrytown, N.Y., neurologist who pays $99 a month for a digital charting program from Medscape. Working at her Dell laptop, Avitzur is automatically prompted to ask her patients about certain symptoms, from dizziness to headaches. She no longer has to shell out $15,000 annually to have her scribbled notes and dictations transcribed, and she can send info to insurers or other consulting doctors in a matter of hours, not days...
...focus of the digital-music debate is rapidly shifting. Once dominant song-swapping service Napster is a shell of its former self, with 1.6 million copyrighted tunes now fully blocked by court order. And the music industry has not wasted time before stepping into the void. Its first Ping-Pong ball was served in the early hours of Monday morning, when EMI, Bertelsmann and Warner Music--three of the labels long lampooned as dinosaurs that didn't get the Net--were inking a deal with Real Networks and AOL after a year of top-secret negotiations...
...letter writing campaign is part of a massive effort launched Wednesday, mounted by some of the country's top business executives, including leaders of Shell Oil and Verizon Communications along with the National Urban League, to argue SAT scores are a poor prediction of future success...