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...London's Telegraph Media Group, which previously saw a decline in circulation and advertising, adopted a similar approach to the AP's on its website and saw their numbers skyrocket. Telegraph.co.uk experienced a huge jump in web traffic, from 7.2 million users in March 2007 to 17 million users in March 2008, making it the third most-visited newspaper website in Britain, according to the study...
...Christine Collins (Jolie) works as a supervisor at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, where she patrols the operator bank on roller skates. She's a conscientious employee, but her life is devoted to her nine-year-old son Walter (Gattlin Griffith), whose father walked out when the child was born. One day Christine returns home to find Walter missing. As the days and months drag on, his disappearance becomes big news, and when word comes that the boy has been located, the press is there en masse at the train station. Instantly she sees that this "Walter" (Devon Conti...
...sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote more than 150 years ago, around the time the nation started to be united, from Atlantic to Pacific, by the railroad and the telegraph. By the end of the 19th century, one of Thomas Edison's lesser inventions--the movies--had given the world the first machine art. In a way, every film ever since has been a testament to the technical ingenuity of America (or of a few geniuses who happened to live there...
...does a student create a senior art project that takes less than 12 hours to gain international attention? Ask Yale art major Aliza Shvarts, whose press release of her project was picked up by the Washington Post and London’s Daily Telegraph Thursday evening shortly after its publication in the Yale Daily News that morning. According to the artist’s statement, Shvarts used a needle-less syringe to artificially inseminate herself, and then took abortifacient drugs to induce bleeding. She said she repeated this over the course of nine months, documenting the process by video...
...Dewsbury Moor council estate where Shannon lived. The impoverished public housing project seemed to find in Shannon's disappearance a cause around which to rally. The local community started its own fundraising campaign, to which one retired resident offered his life savings: $1000, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. But initial jubilation after Shannon was found safe turned quickly to anger as a flurry of arrests turned suspicion towards her family...