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...Whipping out an astrological book of birthdays, FM puts Kirshner's skepticism to the test...
...Sunday afternoon at Lanes 'n Games near Alewife, FM makes the metaphorical literal. Beneath the fluorescent lights of the alley, we get to know Professor Putnam up close and in the lane. In the heat of the game, we capture his personal technique, find out what he thinks about candlepin, and attempt--between frames--to grasp his theories of the decline of social capital in America with a bowler's grip...
...After the first round, the retrieving system spits out the Professor's heavy black ball. It rolls along the metal shoot until it rests next to FM's neon green, glittery-swirled ball, and the video screen above our heads plays a loud computer graphic of a stick figure getting a strike and celebrating by leaping around in the air. The figure's dance is intermittently interrupted by flashes of a red X. The sequence holds our attention for a few seconds and then fades back into the scoreboard where a smaller red x appears in Professor Putnam's first...
...gaze up at the screen for a moment, contemplating this phenomenon. A baseball fan holds up a sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...stuff you secretly want to know--the cars they drive, the golf clubs in the trunk, the government research that pays for it all. Who are these people, where do they live, where do they go for Thai? I needed to know these things and so did FM readers. The piece would demonstrate true FM investigative reporting. Heck, we'd tail them if we had to, cribbing notes with every turn of the burled walnut steering wheel. Yesiree, stalking professors...