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...Wham! Pow! Zap! Quincy House non-resident tutor and former librarian Julia S. Rubin '84 estimates the Qube's hulking collection to include at least 5,000 titles. Volumes range from old-school-classics like Batman to fresh-off-the press X-Men. Some are yellowed and faded, others shiny and prime for paper-cuttage; every character, from the Avengers to the X-Men, exercises powers even the most ambitious Harvard student can't access...
...wants it? Iacocca is counting on niche markets around the U.S. Retirement communities are an obvious target (he has spent some time playing golf at them lately). Small-town police departments in California already use electric bicycles, mostly made by ZAP Power Systems, a U.S. market leader. Later this year EVG plans to introduce a folding electric bike, which Iacocca figures is just the accessory for the life-style-conscious drivers of minivans and SUVs. "It's like the Trojan Horse," says the prince of promotion. "If I can get enough bikes into garages, then eventually kids are going...
...seamless transaction; after slaving away at the keyboard, you still have to sign the old-fashioned way. But in a pilot program this year, a few million e-filers who have software like TurboTax, as well as those who use a preparer like H&R Block, can zap their 1040--paper free--with a code substituting for their signature. E-filers can also pay their balance due by phone with a credit card--for a fee, of course...
...prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...
...past, the public has rewarded stations for pursuing just this kind of story, though typically less bloody ones. "Usually the ratings shoot sky-high, and the viewers use their remote controls and zap from station to station. They watch them," says Perret. Explains Manhattan psychologist Steven Fishman: "A lot of people have pent-up emotions, so it's cathartic for them to observe such violent action." But, says Sissela Bok, an ethicist at Harvard: "That just shows that the lines between news and entertainment have become very blurred." Former TV news producer Derwin Johnson, a professor at the Columbia Graduate...