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...addition to trying to complete course readings, write country reports and postcards, organize in-port travel and financial arrangements for the next port, attend diplomatic briefings, factory, orphanage and prison visits, welcome receptions and other course-required field work, student were trying to control their culture shock. Every aspect of our lives was challenged in each country, from our sleep habits to our cultural and historical assumptions to language, religion and social manners...
Howard Stern is radio's most notorious "shock jock," and a few minutes of his program is enough to show why. But the biggest shock lately is how popular he has become. Stern's morning show is ranked No. 1 in New York City, and has spread to eight other cities, with one more (New Orleans) soon to join. In Los Angeles, where he went on the air just over a year ago, Stern's is now the top-rated morning show. In Cleveland, Stern has been on for only nine weeks and has doubled his station's ratings...
...native of New York's Long Island, Stern, 38, graduated from Boston University and began his radio career in 1976. But he didn't hit his shock- jock stride until joining Washington's WWDC in 1981. He then moved to WNBC in New York, but his lewd material, including sketches like Bestiality Dial-a- Date, got him fired. He was picked up by a struggling FM station, wxrk, in 1985, and in short order boosted its ranking from 21st...
SHOW BUSINESS: King of the Shock Jocks...
Hills' threat was intended as shock therapy -- to force the European Community to reduce its agricultural subsidies, the issue that has thwarted all recent attempts to forge a new global General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade among the U.S. and 107 other trading partners. As Americans fretted about prohibitively priced Chablis and Europeans contemplated retaliation, puzzled observers tried to sort out a complex question: Who's really to blame...