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drop cap

In typography, a large first letter that drops below the first line.

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I miss Jon every day but t I'm keeping his passion for flying alive; RED ARROWS PILOT JON EGGING WAS KILLED IN A DISPLAY LAST YEAR, BUT MMA WON'T LET HIS DEATH BE IN VAIN. BY SALLY JANES HIS WIDOW EMM

There are also plans to offer subscriptions on the Amazon Kindle and another e-reader developed by a company called Plastic Logic (see Drop Cap, page 12).

Stopping the presses: maybe it's time for newspapers to go online-only

The center plans to train students to do story research and work with outlets such as New England Cable News and WBUR-FM (see Drop Cap, February/March).

Endangered I-Teams: local TV stations are unwisely jettisoning their investigative units

Our reporting on Bush and the Iraq War [see Drop Cap, August/September 2004] was really rooted in that principle," he says.

Endangered species: many newspapers are laying off the reporters who monitor the federal government from a local angle. The cost could be steep

Carroll, one of the very best editors of our era, mercilessly dissected the nefarious impact of public ownership on newspapers and raised the horrifying specter of a world without public-service journalism (see Drop Cap, page 10).

Getting over ourselves: the media landscape has changed irrevocably. Let's accept it, and fight to preserve what truly matters

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