Is it news or entertainment?Since her death in February, Anna Nicole Smith has been on the tube around the clock. We've homed in like vultures on this and other celebrity stories. The nation may be at war, and Al Qaeda may be gearing up for a rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® . But that's no fun, not when Britney is shaving off her hair and Jennifer Aniston is reported to have a new nose. If air time is any guide, there's no contest. The line between news and entertainment has vanished. Today, news is entertainment. No one can figure out what to do about Iraq or At Qaeda; New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded was washed away, and no one knows how to put it back together; the ice caps are melting, and Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore is raising the alarm about global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . But none of that has really gotten the public's attention. None of it is amusing enough. As a nation of spectators, we seem content to sit in front of the TV, obsessing over celebrities and giving no thought to the possibility that calamitous ca·lam·i·tous adj. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous. ca·lam  i·tous·ly adv. events around the world may someday reach
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