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...idea for the film came from Todd Garner, a Disney executive at the time. He approached Bruckheimer, who says he was intrigued by "a period that had a lot of innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's WW II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of adults ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...
...Like sending e-mails from the pool, or curling up in bed with your favorite sitcom. This futuristic gadget combines the functions of a television, a dvd player and the Internet into a portable tablet the size of a place mat. If it catches on, it could change the concept of being digital at home...
...empowering concept, sure. But it's also a little, uh, freaky. Remember, I think to myself, that guy in 10th grade? With the sloppy long hair and regulation Oxford and those very, very piercing eyes? Remember his schedule, how you nervously ambled into the front office and flipped through the binder and memorized it so you could secretly coordinate that vital hall time? Remember wondering where he drove in that beat-up Volkswagen after soccer practice? Before he went home to West Springfield, zip code 22310? Technology changes, but not people. I didn't have a cell phone then; neither...
...public awareness risks minimizing the difficulty of the sport. When Simonson's team didn't bring back Mallory's remains, opting instead to bury him with rocks, there was an outcry from some members of the audience at the team's perceived inhumanity. "These people have absolutely no concept of the difficulty of even physically getting to the place we found Mallory, let alone the precariousness of that location for a climber merely trying to keep himself from hurtling into the abyss," Simonson says. "It's not until people die on the mountains that audiences wake up and realize...
Within two years, FAhraeus predicts, most network operators will follow Vodaphone's lead. The Anoto concept gives them a cool new service to offer subscribers - and a way to collect new fees. Paper-makers, naturally, are sold on the prospect of turning their centuries-old product into a digital tool for a fraction of a cent per sheet...