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...most popular program on BBC2 - the higher-browed of the Beeb's two main channels - Top Gear regularly pulls in more than 7 million viewers, roughly a quarter of all Britons watching TV during the program's Sunday-night slot. Chalk that up to the show's high speed and high production values: crazy challenges and outlandish races - an Aston Martin versus a train between England and Monte Carlo, for instance (the Aston won) - are, like the rest of the show, beautifully shot and edited. Add in the bickering, bantering, male-but-not-macho presenters, and Top Gear has "touched...
...Bugatti Veyron As a piece of engineering ... it's like Concorde. Trying to get people to fly at twice the speed of sound while sipping a gin and tonic is immensely difficult. The Bugatti is the same sort of deal...
...earnest yet. Paulson has spoken twice thus far with a representative of Obama's transition team, once in person and once on the phone. The face-to-face meeting took place in Paulson's office for an hour on Nov. 10, with Paulson bringing Obama's team up to speed on details of pending decisions. This week Obama's transition team is expected to establish offices in the building and to begin digging more deeply into the handoff...
...show’s dramatic scenes of internal struggle and frantic reporting, “The Front Page” is also a comedy. Characters fire off jokes rapidly, phones ring incessantly, and multiple characters talk over one another simultaneously. One might initially be confused and overwhelmed by the speed at which “The Front Page” progresses. Though the characters’ rapid and overlapping dialogue makes it difficult to fully comprehend their articulations, the production creates a glimpse of the fast-paced Chicago newsroom where you live fast or get left behind. The actors...
While all that suggests the system will move full speed ahead, there was a recent ground-breaking that makes it pretty much official. Three weeks ago, the Pentagon began work on a new missile defense "Headquarters Command Center" at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, about 10 miles south of the Pentagon. The $38.5 million building will be home to 300 Missile Defense Agency workers. Its planned brick veneer will match the fort's Georgian Colonial Revival style. Once finished in late 2010, the brand new missile-defense headquarters will blend in with Fort Belvoir's pre-World War II buildings. It will...