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As his brother, Eric, rigged a hidden camera inside a jacket to be worn by an animal rights activist for an undercover investigation, Mitchell Wagenberg talked about one of the recent jobs handled by their Manhattan-based company, StreeTVision Remote. "Just got back from India," says the ponytailed Wagenberg, standing inside his Lower West Side loft/office, crammed with monitors, cameras and cable. "I rigged two guys up (with hidden cameras). I...
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Some people are sniveling about this dark, wet, cold weather. But just about every skier, snowboarder, snowshoer and snowmobiler is completely delighted.It's raining here in South Puget Sound, but it's snowing in the high country, and that's welcome news for snow lovers who twisted in the warm winds of last winter."It's dumping here," Tiana Enger, Crystal Mountain spokeswoman, said Monday morning....
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Alex Shakar's first novel parodies consumerism, from diet water to ad campaigns.
For much of the '90s, writer Alex Shakar was a cloistered doctoral candidate in creative writing, looking down on the real world from his proverbial ivory tower. He regarded himself as an enlightened intellect above the consumer fray, well positioned to write a novel satirizing popular culture and consumer marketing, particularly the young trend spotters hired to find the Next Big Thing. That was until he became trend-spotter quarry himself.Shakar was unmasked when a team of...
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Yellowstone National Park, in northern Wyoming, is our country's first national park. It is known for its spectacular geothermal wonders: mud pots, steam vents, hot springs, and roaring geysers. Every year, the park accommodates more than 4 million visitors, yet it remains a sanctuary for wildlife such as wolves, coyotes, elk, bears, bison, river otters, and foxes.America's Sacred Wilderness www.pbs.org/edens/yellowstone 5 Stars Eloquent prose, fabulous...
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In a shameless effort to boost readership, this column will soon be the focus of a Web-cam, which means that for a not-unreasonable fee, anyone may log onto the World Wide Web and watch the amazing and hitherto closely guarded process of cranking out the stuff that appears in this space.Web-cam sites are proliferating. A recent Globe Living/Arts story reported that each day, hundreds of thousands of Web surfers check in to various candid camera Web sites to watch people...