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...growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News 24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...called, simply, The Boat Race. But the grueling, annual 178-year-old meet, which pits two eight-man rowing teams from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford against each other along a four-mile stretch of London's River Thames, is the most famous, most watched rowing race in the world. In April, when Cambridge staged an amazing come-from-behind win, one of the victorious rowers was Dan O'Shaughnessy, a brash Canadian who initially didn't make the coaches' cut. O'Shaughnessy's a strong rower, but in this sport, synchronization is key, and his technique didn...
Just as we see small glimpses of ourselves in our offspring, it will be intriguing to see how much of our culture survives in theirs. Not just the Beatles' but obscure Rosemary Clooney songs can stretch toward immortality, thanks to iTunes. What will it mean that for $8, you can buy the complete works of Jane Austen for downloading onto your BlackBerry...
...egos with that.”Hopkins quickly latched onto the idea that he should be the bass player.“All summer he played Guitar Hero so he could be good for our band,” Breaux said. “There was a two month stretch where the only time I saw him outside of football was playing guitar hero.”Hopkins wasn’t quite so charitable with his assignments to other band members.“They were trying to get me to play the xylophone or the tambourine...
...seat 5 in. farther than usual from the one in front of it, it is 20 in. wide vs. the typical 17 in. Even the aisles are wider: 20 in. vs. 19 in. If these differences seem minuscule, they're not: they gave me enough space to change positions, stretch (I'm 5 ft. 6 in.) and put my book and earphones down next to me on the seat. The seat has a pitch of 37 in., reclines 8 in. and has an adjustable foot and leg rest, useful for sleep...