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...beer. All I wanted was to see a nice Cirque du Soleil show, work my expense account at Le Cirque with my only famous friend, Robert Goulet, and crash at the new hotel at Mandalay Bay, where my standard room has two bathrooms and three flat-screen TVs. But New Vegas won't let me be. It needs to show me what a great time it's having, with its supersized, sanitized, nonintimidating version of the same sins I don't want when I'm at home. I am considering taking the beer so I can finally get sick...
...Spacetoon." She kept her son home from kindergarten last year because she was worried about his safety. He missed nothing, her husband interjects, because everything about the school "is very bad." The only entertainment for kids and adults is endless television. In most houses, small private generators keep the TVs going through the daily blackouts. With school out and summer heat above 110°F every day, young people stay up to watch TV in the cool of the night and then sleep till noon. Many Baghdad kids, notes the doctor, have acquired a pasty yellow pallor. Some are getting...
Blubber has become a national health scandal. Obviously, the culprits are fattening fast food, working moms and a decline in intramural sports in school, plus hours of staring at TVs and computers. You reported that 80% of children played sports every day in 1969 while only 20% do so today. Athletic directors, head coaches and platoons of assistants should be enlisted to activate physical-education programs that leave no child behind in rigorous exercise. JOHN A. VANDERFORD Jacksonville...
...These days, however, a monumental transition is taking place in U.S. living rooms, and LG smells opportunity. Consumers are tossing aside boxy TVs and clunky VCRs in favor of wide, flat screens, DVD players and, eventually, computer-like systems with digitized video and music recorders and Internet services. With this emerging gadgetry, LG is surprisingly well positioned. LG.Philips has been a leader in developing large, flat displays, and LG makes 70% of all set-top boxes for receiving digital satellite TV sold...
...fostered a focus at LG on design and function that capitalizes on the digital home. Last year LG was the world's largest seller of mobile phones operating on the CDMA standard, which allows more people to use a network at the same time. It makes dazzling flat-screen TVs and other leading-edge gadgets. LG.Philips LCD, a joint venture formed in 1999 with Royal Philips Electronics, became the world's biggest maker of the LCD panels used in flat-screen TVs and monitors in 2003, with 22% of the global market. The unit's operating profit soared 307% last...