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...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
TIME: Grokster reportedly is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx to form a legal peer-to-peer network. Do you think actions like this will solve illegal downloading...
Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," Donaldson says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color...
...boys. In 1997 there were approximately 100 gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--clubs for gay and gay-friendly kids--on U.S. high school campuses. Today there are at least 3,000 GSAs--nearly 1 in 10 high schools has one--according to the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN, say "glisten"), which registers and advises GSAs. In the 2004-05 academic year, GSAs were established at U.S. schools at the rate of three...
...endure the baleful combination of loneliness and longing that characterized the childhoods of so many gay adults. Gay kids can now watch fictional and real teens who are out on shows like Desperate Housewives, the dating show Next on MTV and Degrassi (a high school drama on the N network whose wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it). Publishers like Arthur A. Levine Books (of Harry Potter fame) and the children's division at Simon & Schuster have released something like a dozen novels about gay adolescents in the past two years. New, achingly...