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...schoolteacher Sean Winter-Bottom's earliest memories is of being lifted out of his bed in the dead of night, wrapped lovingly in a blanket, and plonked in front of the television to watch his country's rugby team, the All Blacks, play a test match against Wales. So special was the event, he was even allowed to break his parents' rule against eating cereal on the carpet in front of the TV. Such is the abandon that manifests in the face of New Zealand's national obsession: the brutal, beautiful game of rugby. "Here," says Winterbottom, "rugby crosses...
According to Tatar, the books we read as children become a part of our emotional fabric, and regarding Harry Potter, we have grown as he has grown—almost in real time. The fabric stretches and becomes a security blanket for older readers, who are able to return to the series and recapture some of that childhood warmth...
...dissuaded by Morrison's drug dealers, he says, who instead had the body brought home to the apartment Morrison had rented, and staged his body in the bathtub. Among those who helped that night was Patrick Chauvel, now a seasoned war photographer. "We carried him in a blanket and got him the hell out of there," Chauvel recalls. "The five or six people who knew, who were there that night, agreed to just forget about...
With a splat, squelch and gurgle, my left shoe fell away and disappeared into the Guinness-like murk of Irish blanket...
...Others are more serious. The conventional wisdom is that public pre-university education is in disarray. On the day we visited a public elementary school, four out of 11 teachers were missing. The government takes the publicly-financed healthcare system very seriously; posters about child vaccinations and medical attention blanket buses. Over the past 15 years, the government has conducted a very aggressive and effective anti-AIDS campaign that has included universal free treatment and television advertisements featuring parents giving condoms to progeny of various sexual persuasions. However, the system has been criticized: The Minister of Health faced audience participation...