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Instrumental in developing Wide World of Sports in the nascent years of ABC Sports, Chet later headed NBC Sports and had a guiding hand in numerous technical innovations, such as the use of instant replay. And, again with the fan in mind and at heart, he hired a Koufax, a Kubek, and several other great sports names as commentators. With two networks behind him, Chet then went to ESPN, becoming the 24-hour sports channel's first president in 1979. "What lies ahead for cable television is incalculable," he said. How right...
...less tempestuous political climate, Ken Mandile's story would be a striking one. This year it is strikingly familiar. Mandile, the owner of a Massachusetts small business that manufactures high-precision screw-machine products, never nurtured political ambitions. But in March 2009, upset with the direction of the nascent Obama Administration, he registered on a website listing Tea Party events and began sending out e-mail blasts. The Worcester Tea Party, for whom Mandile serves as president, now counts more than 700 members on its distribution list, the vast majority of them political newcomers like Mandile himself. Groups like...
From there, Khuri’s drive to achieve sowed the seeds of the nascent Kingsley Flood. Khuri, who had been playing guitar and writing songs since high school, says he asked then-roommate Nick M. Balkin to “pick up a bass and just see what happened.” Luckily, they clicked musically, Khuri says. A series of fortuitous events, he adds, such as stumbling upon their future drummer in a bar, led them to the other three members of the current band...
...nascent UNICEF campaign has registered only about 130 Haitian children, but thousands are expected to be in the agency's database before the year's end. Not everyone backs the no-to-orphanages philosophy, of course. Referring to the Idaho missionaries, an American Christian missionary who helps run an orphanage in northern Haiti told TIME this week, "You can't let a few misguided people like them cast a shadow over the genuinely good work others are doing with Haitian children...
...carbon, nuclear energy might look like a better investment down the line. And even in the absence of congressional action, such loan guarantees allow Obama to implement his energy policy directly, without the dithering Senate. As long as the much better-funded nuclear industry doesn't eclipse nascent renewables - which lack the lobbying muscle of the atomics - there should be room for all. "The fact is, changing the ways we produce and use energy requires us to think anew," said Obama. "That's what we must do. And that is what we have begun...