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...other shows in the '80s with ridiculous names and they sort of seemed all the same: a lot of creepily stage-managed kids and then a lot of people who are just trying so hard that they're pandering. There was always some 45-year-old dude singing "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." When they were trying to introduce karaoke to the U.S. in the '80s you had a lot of people who were raised to think that if you can't sing you shouldn't sing. But with American Idol, now if you ask any 19-year...
...simply cutting carbon emissions isn't going to keep the city from drowning. An immense and intricate flood-control system is in the works. Evocatively called MOSES, an acronym for its Italian name, the $5.3 billion project is about half done, but it's not scheduled for completion till 2014. Financing has slowed construction: at one time, Venice had to sell off some of its venerated palazzi to raise money. But, says Rafael Bras, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Irvine and chair of the committee overseeing MOSES, another change in the global climate...
...assess the damage. “There were a lot of media people and bystanders interested in seeing what was going on and how things ended up,” he said.Raygor could see burn marks on the sides of the hotels, and shattered glass was everywhere. Firefighters were till dousing areas of the building that were still smoking. “Large portions of the building were charred and black, and we could tell there had been a fire,” he said. “Tons of windows were blown open.”Raygor said...
...ticket off of a House list but was able to get a free ticket after the extra tickets were made available. “I guess I was a bit upset that the tickets ran out, though I also blame myself for just neglecting to think about getting one till way late in the week,” Higgins said. Although many students went through with sales of their free tickets, some who had advertised available tickets ended up giving them away to friends or keeping them. Lewis M. Ward ’11 said...
...Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the writer-presenter of Alistair Cooke's America. These PBS series made Cooke, in the words of Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton, the "rock star" of educational television. On Sesame Street, a famous Muppet became "Alistair Cookie" on Monsterpiece Theater, and in Peanuts Snoopy imagined himself as "Alistair Beagle." Cooke died in 2004, at 95, and would have been 100 this past Thursday. In celebration, Masterpiece is running an hour-long biography, The Unseen Alistair Cooke, this Sunday, with...