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...they are printed at all, the runs typically remain at fewer than 2,000 copies. And the goal, of course, is not to make money, build circulation or get noticed. Instead some zines refuse to carry any advertising, distribute only to their intellectual compatriots and switch titles to disguise themselves as well as avoid detection by a possible talent scout...
...YEAR-OLDS: Kidware for this group must be demanding enough to keep children interested but not so tough as to cause them to switch off their machines. Davidson & Associates' Math Blaster, a venerable series that has sold 1.6 million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with...
...Oakland with 14-year-old Jeremy Musser and his brother Nick, 11. The moral for Nick is that "the players are getting too greedy." Jeremy's allegiance to the game is in danger of fading. "If I can't be a baseball fan," he said practically, "I'll probably switch to golf." All over America, empty baseball diamonds bake with dust as the Jeremy-and-Nick generation sinks putts, shoots hoops, kicks soccer balls or just hangs out at the mall. Baseball is losing the young (the last time a World Series game was played during daytime...
Writers with the same creative guarantee as directors? Nah, it'll never work. Attend to this New Hollywood joke, from Joss Whedon: "They switch directors because something is very wrong. They switch writers because it's Tuesday...
Faculty are most affected by two change in particular--the reduction of Harvard's contribution to the faculty pension plan by one percentage point annually and the switch of Harvard's contribution to the array of health care plans available from a fixed percentage of Harvard's total health expenses to a percentage of the cost of the lowest-cost plan...