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...Tell me where the idea to add zombies to Pride and Prejudice came from. Was there a Eureka moment? Actually the credit for this belongs to my editor, Jason Rekulak. He had had this sort of long-gestating idea of doing some kind of mashup, he called it. He didn't know what it was, he just knew there was something to it. He had these lists, and on one side he had a column of War and Peace and Crime and Punishment and Wuthering Heights and whatever public domain classic literature you can think of. And on the other...
...with it. Then I read it again very carefully, marking up the margins, underlining things, making notes, sort of working out the logistics - all right, if I change this in chapter 6, how does it resonate in chapter 56? And so on. I was also looking for places to add things that hadn't existed in the original book. Zombie attacks, usually...
What both the E.U. and Turkey lack is vision. Accession-skeptics on both sides tend to take today's E.U. (still digesting the 2004 and 2007 enlargements), add today's Turkey (sometimes prickly as it struggles to solidify its democracy) and then conclude that this could never work. But by, say, 2020 both Turkey and Europe will hopefully have changed in ways that make them a perfect fit. To throw away that historic opportunity would be a mistake of historic proportions...
...study's findings may have particular relevance in the U.S., says Veleva, since the cost of IVF is roughly three to four times higher in America (sometimes more than $10,000 per cycle) than in Scandinavia and because many Americans pay for treatments out of pocket. Add to that the high cost and increased risks involved with multiple births: Veleva cites a 2000 study that found that, compared with singleton deliveries, the costs for twins, triplets and higher-order deliveries are approximately four, 11 and 18 times greater, respectively, mostly due to maternal and neonatal complications...
...many women think men were put on earth to provide: comic relief. Outside the core group, the general is your standard-issue blowhard, while the U.S. President, voiced by Stephen Colbert, is a pompous doofus with little of the appeal of the character Colbert plays on his own show. Add Susan's clumsily ambitious near husband (Paul Rudd) to this bunch, and the movie is sort of Snow White and the Seven Dorks...