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...leverage over the networks, who need to announce a fall schedule to advertisers in a couple of weeks. But writers are now negotiating with multi-tentacled entertainment Borgs that are well-positioned to survive a strike for quite a while longer than the writers can. Especially with all those cheap, fast, non-writer-dependent reality series doing so nicely out there...
...have to wonder how the negotiations might have gone if this year's second wave of reality shows had crapped out as badly as "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"'s imitators did the year before. If "Temptation Island" had folded like a cheap sarong, if "The Mole" were not burrowing back for a second season, the writers may have come to the table a good bit cockier and, perhaps, less motivated to settle. But the shows thrived, with more coming up in fall, which you can bet put the fear of God and Jeff Probst into writers...
...There are lots of solutions out there: more runways; higher prices for flying at rush hour; incentives for airlines to use larger aircraft that take up proportionately less space and time in crowded airports; encouraging, or forcing, use of secondary airports; gagging members of Congress who insist on nonstop, cheap flights from Podunk to Major Metropolis; and even (anti-government types should skip this part) reinstitution by the FAA of slots (that is, landing and takeoff rights) at the most delayed airports...
...named his magazine after the mightiest of them all, Giant Robot. The hip 'zine delves into Asian-American culture and spots the latest trends from across the Pacific - from wasabi-flavored potato chips to schoolgirl porn. Today's toy robots, says Nakamura dismissively, tend to be cobbled together with cheap plastic. Die-cast robots, on the other hand, are emblematic of the kind of Japanese craftsmanship that transformed the nation's image from shoddy imitator in the 1960s to technological leader just a decade later...
...trade summit in Quebec--tear gas and rioters--was as much a reminder as those posters that trade has become an electric issue. Some of the points are legit: signing a country like Brazil to a trade pact could make it harder for Brazilians living with AIDS to get cheap counterfeit drugs. But there is also blind fury from parts of the world where trade is seen as a tool of imperialism, not modernization. It may be even harder to undo that perception than it is to ink agreements on trade. Unfortunately, for Zoellick, it's a top priority...