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...innovations have been posterlike wall magazines placed in schools, health clubs and doctors' offices throughout the U.S. While distributing these materials, Whittle's people noticed that in most waiting rooms, the newest magazines are the first to be pinched; the issues that are left are often out of date, torn and dog-eared. "That's where we started from," explains Whittle. "We thought we could solve the physician's problem as well as the consumer...
...this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...
Overall, however, Lee did give the viewers a fair insight into what life might be like at a Black college. And Lee managed to bring attention to the issues that have torn the Black community apart for years. He made a clear plea for Blacks to throw aside their differences and join together, united once and for all. Lee's message rang through every scene and was spotlighted in the finale: it is time for Black Americans to "wake-up" to their problems and together find new ways to solve them...
...eggs in the other, a stout woman leaves the open-air market and climbs into a horse-drawn taxi. The elderly driver, a smile creasing his weathered face, tugs on the reins and utters a sharp "Vamonos!" as the black carriage with a torn leather awning rolls away. The scene could have come from Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry's collection of picturesque short stories set in turn-of-the-century Central America. But this is no quaint, fictitious land. This is modern-day Nicaragua...
...radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...