Word: vanguards
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...worth noting that visions of TV becoming a vast interactive sales catalog are still mainly in the minds of futurists. Big-name brand advertisers are only starting to test the waters, experimenting with interactive ads in France, Britain and the U.S. Still, France's TPS, one of the vanguard channels, has hosted more than 25 interactive ad campaigns in the past four years and claims that up to 50% of viewers use the click-through option. Opel, which now devotes about 5% of its advertising budget to interactive spots, considers its TPS campaign promising, and Danan is convinced interactive...
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...heroes of Japan's go-go era, driving their Bentleys and Rolls Royces, living in their mansions, dating their exotic blond girlfriends. This was the period, remember, when Japan was going to take over the world. Men like Joji Obara cast themselves as the Fibe Mini warriors on the vanguard of this Japanese invasion. Naoko Tomono, a journalist who has written extensively about Lucie's case for the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshon, offers a surprising insight into how some men in Obara's age group perceive his infamy as a serial rapist: "They respect him as a man comfortable going...
...largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White...
...Student activists have long made a difference in American life, and Harvard students have been in the vanguard of those movements. Today’s protest continues that proud tradition...