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...been for that gridiron great (at least in the eyes of NFL owners) Rupert Murdoch. The Australian-born boss of News Corp. has reordered the economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been paying. News Corp. wrote off some $350 million after the swipe...
...favorably with their peers brought up in unbroken "straight" households. There are far more children looking for adoptive parents than people willing to adopt. Adoption officials have to deal with reality. Their options, when considering the best interests of each child, should not be limited by pie-in-the-sky delusions. WILLIAM C. STOSINE Iowa City...
February 7, 1978. The sky was falling...
That day's weather slug? "Chicken Little was right," we told our readers. The sky had indeed fallen, but The Crimson kept right on printing. President, 105th Executive Board
...Sept. 19, 1783, at Versailles, the first aeronauts--a sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons...