Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...documentary 4 Little Girls, which debuts on HBO on Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. E.T., Spike Lee sets out to tell the stories of the victims of the bombing and to explain why it happened when and where it did and the effect it had on the civil rights movement. The film was briefly in theatrical release last year, and has just been nominated for an Oscar. Shifting smoothly from the most poignant details of the girls' lives--Scout badges, a first pair of grownup shoes--to the actions of historical figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...losses to complete the deals. Major buyers of silver like Eastman Kodak, which processes millions of ounces a year into film, faced big increases in raw-material costs. And everywhere families began eyeing grandma's precious flatware as a possible source of cash. "We think we may see the spike reach double digits--maybe $10 an ounce--but one doesn't really know in this rarefied territory," says Nick Moore, director of Flemings Global Mining Group in London...
They are currently trying to figure out how the features of a visual image are encoded in the spike trains that retinal ganglion cells send to the brain...
...agony about whether the story was firm enough to go with. The editors ultimately decided it wasn't and pulled it from last week's issue--only to post it on America Online midweek after Internet scoopmeister Matt Drudge had reported both the story and Newsweek's decision to spike it, and the tale had spread on the Web until it finally surfaced in Wednesday's Washington Post and Los Angeles Times...
...right to get it second and Drudge to get it first. Maybe both staked out their proper places in the media food chain. There will be plenty of times when caution will be rewarded and uncritical insta-printing will look foolish. Or maybe they were both wrong: Newsweek to spike a great scoop and Drudge to publish it. The former view is more appealing, and I'm 80% sure it's right...