Word: boothe
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...idea, I realize, is to lure the Von Drehle clan out of our gas hog and into a phone booth-sized vehicle powered by switchgrass and meditation. Unfortunately, with four kids, all in grade school, we need a minivan. So is this program for us? To find out, I took a ride on the information superhighway to www.fueleconomy.gov, which is an easy way to compare the efficiency of just about every car imaginable...
...much easier to scare off birds from a tree than to bring them back," says Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and co-creator of its trust index. "And that's what trust's about. It's much easier to destroy than to build...
...elegance. Osborne used to be fanfared with a shot of the grand (and imaginary) TCM Building, a Deco marvel. The late-night movies are heralded by glimpses of a counterman at a diner, a woman seen dressing in a high window, a fellow waiting for customers in the ticket booth of a 24-hr. theater. The most elaborate intro assembled nearly 30 musicians on pieces of a bandstand assembled by workmen and coming together to create a sumptuous aural-visual orchestration. It's as if the network wants to re-create the aura of a movie palace in the viewers...
...regular client, a financial trader, recalling her first consultation with Nina Ashby, one of nine practitioners who collectively constitute the eponymous Sisters. "Nina is very positive," adds the client. Originally from New York City and describing herself as clairvoyant, clairsentient and clairempathic, Ashby plies her rare gifts from a booth draped in a heavy velvet that can't quite contain her high-volume buoyancy. "People come to me to be uplifted, not to be brought down," she says. (See 10 things to do in London...
...victim to his chosen killing zone by impersonating as a well-known Harvard alumnus from Utah. Brewer called his victim posing as the alumnus and asked her to meet him at Herrell's Ice Cream, a location this person frequents. Arriving early at Herrell's, Brewer watched from a booth as his victim walked to the back of the shop where she awkwardly introduced herself to some other students who she thought was there to meet the same man. Brewer then crept up behind her and dispatched his victim. After such a ruthless kill, Brewer apologized and asked...