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...Tipping Point assembles talking points from childhood development, marketing and social epidemiology, and holds them up at an angle that lets one distant notion attach to another. If sometimes the book reads like a primer in sales technique--Get that message out!--it's also an ingenious guide to the ways in which antismoking and needle-exchange programs, well, get that message out. Gladwell's message is optimistic. The world "may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push--in just the right place--it can be tipped." Got that? Just...
...point is efficiency is not and cannot be the only goal of the American army. We do not shoot soldiers deserting on the battlefield, and we most certainly do not go after their families. An imperfect record notwithstanding, we respect human rights. And we attach value to the individual life. Although we might have a better military if we lost our national conscience, we properly insist that fighting power take a backseat to certain fundamental, defining values of our country...
...McCain's letters are not the only work he's done on behalf of Paxson and other broadcasters. In a little-noticed move last June, McCain tried to attach to a telecommunications bill a provision that would have made it easier for broadcast groups to own more than one TV station in a market. McCain's measure was dropped when Democrats objected. In August the FCC moved to allow many of the changes McCain wanted. One result: Paxson's stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that...
...distance and see houses, trees, mountain peaks that are landmarks in space, so one may look out in another direction and see births, marriages, deaths that are signposts in time, stretching off dimly into the far future." It does not take much of another stretch to attach godhead to such a vision, though that was hardly Einstein's own feeling...
...genes in the virus, E6 and E7, attach to proteins that regulate cell division and deactivate them. HPV causes the cells to grow wildly and also destroys the mechanisms that would normally fix the problem...