Word: soho
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Earthwatch, a non-profit environmental organization based in Water-town, announced last week a sweep-stakes contest co-sponsored with Soho Beverages which is intended to promote awareness of environmental issues...
...Blue Magruder '69, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, said yesterday the competition asks students from Harvard and five other schools to suggest solutions to the Earth's environmental problems, and simultaneously allows Soho Beverages to advertise its products and show its commitment to the environment...
Magruder said Soho has donated the funds for the Earthwatch Prizes. The grand prize is a "water-related" Earthwatch expedition to one of 20 destinations around the world. It is worth $1,800 to $4,000 for the student's summer project and $2,200 for airfare. Other prizes include backpacks, watches and Soho natural soda products...
...documentary series that puts a '90s spin on An American Family, PBS's 1973 cinema-verite chronicle of the troubled Loud family. The producers selected seven young New Yorkers (one a transplant from Alabama) ranging in age from 19 to 25, put them together in a furnished loft in SoHo and set the cameras rolling for three months. The idea was to keep a video diary of their interactions, altercations and (possibly) romantic entanglements -- to see, as the show puts it, "what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real...
...Real World may improve as the subjects get used to the camera and fed up with one another. With a little more psychic turmoil, the show might even become a hit. Imagine the possibilities: young viewers turn off Beverly Hills, 90210 for Tales of the SoHo Seven. The gang gets back together for a sequel. There's a reunion after seven years, then 14, then 21 . . . Come on, Julie, go for those strawberries...