Word: reportable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...issue features articles by Bret Easton Ellis and A.M. Homes, not exactly new voices but evidence of Betts' dedication to deft writing. And the opening section's Bazaar Report puts a journalistic spin on style by showing how runway fashions are worn in real life. While the new Bazaar differs markedly from the old one in content, it joins a crowded field of sources from television to the Internet to lifestyle magazines that offer women of all tax brackets style tips on makeup and clothing and peeks at celebrity wardrobes...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s complaint focused largely on minority characters. But the casting disparity was the good news, compared with that in the creative and executive ranks. Nearly all the executives who can approve series are white, and a 1998 report by the Writers Guild of America found that 92% of all black TV writers work for mostly black-cast sitcoms. And again, that's the good news. At least there are black-cast sitcoms to be segregated on, an option other minorities don't have...
MICHAEL JORDAN Report: His Airness may go to front office. "Sir, could you help with this light bulb...
COASTER CLOTS Some thrill. Japanese researchers report that at least four people have developed blood clots on the brain after riding giant, high-speed roller coasters. The clots, called subdural hematomas, occur when vessels near the surface of the brain rupture and leak. Clots from coasters are still extremely rare, but as a safeguard, the researchers suggest no more than two rides in a row. If you develop a headache, vomiting or confusion, get to a doctor fast...
...called uPublish!, and research manager Jim Olstrom was naturally eager to know whether his customers were having problems creating their home pages. As recently as last November, he would have had little choice but to wait while a market-research firm surveyed users in order to put together a report he might read two months later. Instead, he turned to InsightExpress, the country's first fully automated online market-research service. Within a few hours Olstrom learned from it that some new customers were finding the directions for uPublish! hard to follow. "We were able to make changes immediately," Olstrom...