Word: watchful
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Part of your book talks about the depiction of mad scientists in Hollywood films. Do you think film and television producers can realistically portray scientists considering they have to sometimes use stereotypes or exaggeration to get people to watch what they produce? I don't think that we can demand incredibly high levels of fidelity to what scientists actually do. What I think we can shoot for is positive role-model figures who are scientists. What really leaves audiences with a positive outlook on the scientific world is if the smart character is actually heroic for being smart...
...elements of a tennis court [June 29]. That is what makes us his fans. As for Rafael Nadal, he is constantly fighting all these elements, including his own body (he had to pull out of Wimbledon for overworking his knees). Nadal's game is exciting to watch, but one gets tired of watching him win with a struggle, 10 times in a row. Nadal can beat Federer every single time they meet, but that won't make him greater than Federer, nor it will make Federer anything less than a living, and still playing, legend of tennis. Hakan Azatoglu, ISTANBUL...
...coffee! Maybe coffee will save journalism! In June, MSNBC signed a deal to make Starbucks the official caffeinated beverage of its talk show Morning Joe. In 2008 a chain of TV affiliates cut a deal to place McDonald's iced coffee on anchor desks. (Watch an interview with Joe Scarborough...
Some of these experiments may seem ethically dubious or just icky, but they're also examples of a simple truth: whether you read it online or watch it on TV, there's no such thing as free news. Someone, somewhere, is paying for it, be it in money or in time. And journalists are under pressure to become more creative in paying that bill. (See the top 10 newspaper movies...
...reportedly readying plans to start charging for online access, while a group of newspaper execs has been looking into the legality of banding together to do the same. News outlets are selling software, merchandise, club memberships - anything that people are more willing to pay for than, well, news. (Watch an interview with New York Times editor Bill Keller...