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...knows better than anyone else what you can't get away with on TV today, having been on the receiving end of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Sunday "wardrobe malfunction." But an aggressive FCC was only one of network TV's problems last season. Another was the sudden, steep drop-off in young male viewers, the most elusive and therefore coveted audience for advertisers. As of April, according to Nielsen Media Research, prime-time broadcast ratings among men ages 18 to 34 were down more than 13% from the previous season...
...demographic time bomb. Without an annual influx of at least 230,000 people, Germany's population of 83 million will shrink to 51 million in 2050 and 24 million in 2100, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Such a steep drop could imperil funding for Germany's state pensions. And despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 10.5%, almost 75,000 jobs are presently unfilled because of a shortage of skilled personnel - just the kind of people the new law is meant to attract. "Germany needs an immigration law geared...
...outer space. You don't read "Leviathan" so much as give in to its visceral sensation. Harder depicts the angry cetacean as, among other things, a metaphor for our fears of nature. But, while quite fascinating to look at, I have to draw the line at the wildly steep cover price. There's simply no justifying $35 (25 euros!) for a cardstock cover and two tones of color...
...It’s really going to be a 4-boat race, between us, Yale, Princeton and Brown,” Lambert said. “After these four teams, there is a steep drop off. It’s going to be a dog fight, and we’ll all have to race our absolute best in the Grand Final...
AUSTRALIA: That's wrong, because this area is unique. The 1958 U.N. Convention on the Continental Shelf is the guiding principle. The sea bed in the Timor Sea has a huge steep cleft called the Timor Trough - 550 nautical miles long, 40 n. mi. wide and as deep as 3,000 m. The two countries sit on different shelves...