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...Pauly. Pauly's different. Both Gilbert and I just punch the clock...
...most catastrophic consequence of the Big One, though, won't be property damage; it will be loss of life. It could easily have happened already, in fact, except for pure dumb luck. The Weather Channel and CNN's round-the-clock coverage notwithstanding, hurricane forecasting is not as precise as people like to believe. Storms are capricious. Indeed, the National Hurricane Center's warnings, issued 24 hours before landfall, are subject to a 90-mile error in either direction...
...Attention Northwest passengers: Midnight EDT is the deadline before the airline's pilots go on strike. In anticipation, Northwest has already canceled 400 flights this weekend. Negotiations, as they say, are proceeding around the clock...
Gitlin and other journalism scholars are hard-pressed to remember any other story that has triggered such furor. It has forced some healthy choices, a necessary filtering reaction to the information age: so much is available around the clock that viewers and readers become editors themselves, making judgments not about what they can find out but about what they want to know. "The general discourse had been getting cruder and cruder," observes Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners. "Privacy and discretion had almost disappeared from the general public usage before the scandal. Now that the salacious nosiness has been carried...
...gulps, awkward in his ponderous regalia, But his eye stays rapt, Elephantine, Arctic-- A god, on earth for the first time, With the clock of love and death in his body...