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...quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many historical neighborhoods with fantastic houses on high ground. We could make it richer architecturally on less land without displacing anybody involuntarily," says Kroloff. Downside? "People in New Orleans may have to trade their ranchburger lifestyle for an urban lifestyle," he says...
...TIME magazine is doing an article on dating shows," jokes Jillian Barberie, host of EX-treme Dating, "it must be about the End of Civilization As We Know It." Au contraire, Jillian! The overweening drive for instant fame, near instant sex and a little money on the side is civilization as we know it--and it's thriving. Dating series have become to the 21st century what sleazy talk and courtroom shows were to the late '90s: a ubiquitous TV staple that offers a sneak peek at the national id--and the occasional blurred-out bare chest. Following Blind Date...
...shows represent the transformation of dating into sport," says Aisha Tyler, host of The 5th Wheel. On EX-treme Dating, two ex-lovers of one dater spy on the rendezvous and comment to their ex's date through an earpiece, like evil Cyranos; if they "win"--sabotage the date--they get a prize. (So far, they usually do.) On Rendez-View, a panel of "relationship experts" offers play-by-play, SportsCenter style...
...don’t think I’ll ever be confused with an Adrenaline Junkie (wearing white socks with brown shoes is about the extent of my X-Treme sports life). However, the occasional speed rush is just what the doctor ordered when I begin to lose sight of my priorities. It is way too easy in these gray days (fellow sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder will understand) to obsess about minutiae that really doesn’t deserve that much attention. Expos essays and problem sets have their place—don’t get me wrong?...
...course, it is only a doomsday scenario, one that may seem "X-treme" in its own right. But given the exposure that the league will get via its contract with NBC, the local support that the franchises in smaller markets like Orlando and Birmingham will receive and astounding popularity of wrestling and McMahon himself, it is unlikely that the XFL can do anything but succeed...