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Writing for New York and Esquire in the sixties was like playing saxophone at the cutting contests at Minton’s: You weren’t just reporting and writing, you were competing against the likes of Jimmy Breslin, Norman Mailer, Gail Sheehy, Brock Brower, Gay Talese, Terry Southern, and others. These giants were restoring strong narrative, detailed reporting, and point of view to American feature journalism.

CJR March/April 2006 - The Tripster in Wolfe's Clothing

Bodies ... The Exhibition is a presentation of 21 whole-body specimens of Chinese cadavers and myriad body parts, from pituitary glands the size of a dollhouse vase to a sad, flaccid penis displayed under glass like a dead butterfly. Currently at the Atlanta Civic Center, Bodies is a multi-city presentation that's simultaneously on view in New York City and Tampa.

Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Arts: Visual Arts: Razzle-dazzle cadavers

"What are Museums for?" was the question set by the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award in 2005. The winner of the annual essay prize established in honour of the former Editor of The Times who died in 1985 is James Delingpole, a novelist, freelance journalist and regular contributor to this paper

The Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award 2005 - Comment - Times Online

"We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," said Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."[BBC News] Donald Rumsfeld denied that Iraq was in a civil war.[CNN] The United States launched Operation Swarmer against the Iraqi insurgency. While the operation was described as the largest air assault since the beginning of the Iraq war, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were captured.

Weekly Review (Harpers.org)

For now, at least, the godfather of counter culture titles has rolled into the Chinese market. Whether it will be a one-hit wonder or a long-running superstar will be one of the more interesting stories to watch within China's increasingly crowded market for transplanted foreign titles.

Rolling Stone: A Hit in China?

Apple may be phasing out its 60-gigabyte Video iPod, according to one analyst who tracks the company.

The company has told its distributors that the 60-gigabyte iPod, which launched in October and retails for $399, is "at risk" until the end of April, meaning that it could be discontinued or replaced,

Analyst says Apple's 60-gig iPod 'at risk' - Mar. 21, 2006

The world's biggest music festival, in keeping with the Texan preference for all things gargantuan, it is also the vibrant heart of the global popular music industry, forging some of the best modern bands.

In 2003, James Blunt arrived at SXSW without a record deal, played in an upstairs room to two dozen people and left on the way to this month's US number one.

In praise of SXSW

For decades it waited in secret inside the masonry foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge, in a damp, dirty and darkened vault near the East River shoreline of Lower Manhattan: a stockpile of provisions that would allow for basic survival if New York City were devastated by a nuclear attack.

Dr. Allison acknowledged that fallout shelters would probably have been ineffective in the event of nuclear war but that the precautions were comforting.

Inside the Brooklyn Bridge, a Whiff of the Cold War

This seems vaguely related to all the hoo ha about intention, attention, etc.

Engagement, "from a research standpoint, is momentary and driven by emotion," said Joseph T. Plummer, chief research officer at the foundation, who is scheduled to speak to the convention today on efforts being made to define engagement to everyone's satisfaction.

"It's turning the mental model of the industry on its head," he added, compared with previous benchmarks like awareness and recall, which are longer-term and have a rational basis.

New Rules of Engagement