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Starr and his friends say that he has written to companies for years: protesting red-dyed M&Ms out of health concerns, challenging the itemization of his phone bills, sending away for free merchandise. And no one had ever gotten angry before...
...When M&M's finally decided that they were going to make red M&Ms, he sent a letter in to them saying 'the dye used in making red M&M's is harmful, you should reconsider,'" Glickman recalls. M&M Mars sent back a polite letter thanking Starr for his comments--and a coupon for a package of the new M&M's, complete with the red ones...
Part of the media's interest stems from the company the technology has been keeping. Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari in the mid-'70s, eagerly foresees games in which people would not just play but actually be Ms. Pac-Man. One of the most enthusiastic proponents is Timothy Leary, the former Harvard researcher who popularized LSD in the '60s and now has visions of a whole new generation "tripping" electronically. "Everyone will be equal in cyberspace," says Leary. "Inequalities of class and race will be eliminated...
...magazine's relaunch may be Steinem's last chance to save the pioneering monthly that she helped start in 1972. Before it was sold last fall to publisher Dale Lang, Ms. was losing $150,000 a month, and circulation has since dropped from 550,000 to under...
Publishing without benefit of advertising, admits editor in chief Robin Morgan, "goes against all the traditional wisdom. But Ms. always has. That's what we're about." Subscriptions will cost $40 a year; newsstand copies will sell for $4.50. This time around, success depends on the editors' ability to woo the sophisticated -- and choosy -- women whom the original Ms. helped create...