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...much America's TV landscape has changed - long gone are the days when the tube was dominated by three networks zapped through the airwaves onto your rabbit ears. Now six networks and a gaggle of cable channels come through a seemingly infinite variety of pay-TV formats. Networks still link to cable companies for free, but increasingly hold them hostage by making the programming's availability contingent on the purchase of the networks' cable affiliates. ABC, for example, recently threatened to pull itself from Time Warner Cable if Time Warner didn't start carrying the SoapNet channel...
...rest of his biography. Friends insist he was involved in "economic intelligence," designed to help the Soviet Union's badly antiquated industrial sector. After Yeltsin's resignation, however, former Prime Minister Stepashin told a television interviewer that inside the KGB Putin was known as "Stasi," possibly implying a link to the East German secret service...
...blind by the years," Albert Einstein confided near the end of his life. He was, alas, correct. During the last three decades of his remarkable career, Einstein had become obsessed by the dream of producing a unified field theory, a series of equations that would establish an underlying link between the seemingly unrelated forces of gravity and electromagnetism...
...enforcement officials said Thursday that sophisticated military grade explosives had been found in medicine containers being carried by the Algerian national who was nabbed trying to cross into Washington State from Canada with a trunkload full of DIY bomb-making material. And Federal prosecutors announced they'd found a link between Ressam and Lucia Garofalo, the Canadian woman arrested last week trying to cross into Vermont with an Algerian companion. Information supplied by a "reliable government" said both were members of a Canada-based cell of an Algerian terrorist organization, the Armed Islamic Group...
Still need a reason to quit smoking? Try this: puffing away quadruples the risk that you may suddenly suffer shortness of breath, heart palpitations and overwhelming feelings of anxiety--in short, a panic attack. What's the link? Lungs of smokers tend to be overstressed, which may make smokers more vulnerable to attacks. Kick the habit, and the increased risk vanishes...