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...ethic of revolt was infectious nonetheless. Shock jocks like Howard Stern moved to satellite radio to duck government monitoring of the public airwaves. Fox News continued its guerrilla war against its rivals and ended up beating the networks at G.O.P. Convention time. Jon Stewart's fake news show took on real news shows--and won. Richard Clarke waged a lone, self-righteous battle against his former bosses in the Bush Administration. The swift-boat vets launched a publicity-seeking missile at one of their own--John Kerry. On the other side, George Soros helped bankroll a million points of protest...
...Video games are achieving even higher shock value by pairing the latest in computer-generated gore with historical tragedies, urban thuggery and real-time foreign crises...
...first hints that the pain reliever Vioxx might raise the risk of heart attacks and stroke surfaced in 2000, but it still came as a shock when drugmaker Merck announced in October that it was pulling its blockbuster drug off the market. Safety data from an ongoing trial had produced clear evidence of cardiovascular problems in subjects taking Vioxx--so clear that the trial was immediately halted...
...seem rude to inform them so late in life, but your grandparents should also know that the world they fought so hard to create by enduring countless wars, President Reagan and ’80s music is actually a carefully constructed computer simulation. It may be a huge shock, so encourage them to watch the films through first with the commentary by Cornel West turned on. Regardless, the rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded will time warp Grandpa straight back to the sock-hop in 1959 where he caught your dad petting with the Marilyn Monroe look-alike...
...billion has been liquidated, including the shock sale of the nation's proudest status symbol, the 51-storey Nauru House tower in central Melbourne. Receivers appointed to recover a $A263 million debt to the General Electric Corporation sold the property last month. Adeang, one of several young, well-educated reformers in the government elected in an October landslide, says most of Nauru's 10,000 residents have finally accepted that change must happen: "We have said there is no other way but reform...