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...Island, New York. His shaggy black yakling of a dog, Tess of the Baskervilles, is sitting at his feet, and he is stretching out his long, strikingly lean -- somewhat cranelike -- legs into the sun, picking up clumps of grass as he talks, and now and then turning off the tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler...
Then one Super Bowl Sunday, Leora Rifkin, 4, daughter of Larry Rifkin, a programming executive with Connecticut Public Television, pulled a Barney tape off the video-store shelf and went home to watch it. And watch it. And watch it. Seeing the magic, her father called Leach's company, the Lyons Group, and they teamed up to produce 30 PBS episodes, which started airing last April. When PBS considered canceling the show last summer, parental howls saved it. Now 20 new episodes, which will introduce another dinosaur character, are scheduled for next year...
...sixth grades to the District of Columbia morgue and pulled back the sheets on the bodies to show the children the ultimate product of violence and drugs. On one visit, the children viewed a corpse riddled with 11 bullet holes. The victim's mouth had been sealed with duct tape. One of the children in the group recognized the body as someone from the neighborhood...
...programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...
...lock [the doors]. Since you can't lock them from the inside, we had to put up warning tape," Fuller said. "The repairs commenced shortly after noon and were finished around...