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...Cochrans are the working poor on a losing streak. Until October, De-Shawto had a job at the Wal-Mart deli counter; Phenom drove a pizza-delivery van until her pregnancy made her too sick to continue. Now a few days a week, De-Shawto gets up before dawn at their temporary home at the Barbara Bonner Family Shelter and heads off to work prepping cars to be sold at a local auto-auction facility. He's lucky to take home...
While the kids are at school, De-Shawto is busy applying for jobs in the area, hoping the family can stay in this new suburban neighborhood just west of the city limits. Shelter staff members scout out local restaurants and retail stores and then ferry him around by van (his license was suspended in 1995 after he was stopped for speeding and driving without insurance; he still owes $850 in fines) to fill out applications. With several years of experience as a cook, De-Shawto felt confident at first that he would get something quickly. But more than two months...
...Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute and Donald Bruce of the Church of Scotland; legal scholar Bartha Knoppers; brain scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Lieut. General Paul Van Riper, U.S.M.C. (ret.); futurist Paul Saffo; Whole Earth cataloger Stewart Brand; venture capitalists Christopher Meyer and Steve Jurvetson; and two of my favorite science writers (outside of my own staff, of course), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Matt Ridley (Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters...
...shows are cheaper than scripted series, and a Mole stunt that involves a contestant getting soaked under a waterfall does gain a certain appeal when said contestant is supermodel Frederique van der Wal. Still, reality shows rely on, you know, reality: we watch them to see people's genuine, unrehearsed reactions, even in contrived situations. Can you expect that from people who have spent their lives performing? "You can tell when someone's acting," says Surreal's Carter, pointing to a genuinely moving moment when Neil talks about his daughter's death of cancer. But Abrego wasn't always sure...
...three coalition parties. lpf, of course, was catapulted to power by its charismatic leader, the maverick right-winger Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated just days before the 2002 election. After Pim, the party fell asunder - and now Bos is emerging as his true heir. Dutch political analyst Kay van de Linde, who was Fortuyn's campaign manager and spent 18 years working with U.S. campaign guru David Garth in New York, calls Bos "a typical American-style television candidate. He's cool, self-assured and projects credibility. People believe what he says. The Dutch are fed up with traditional politicians...