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...Collins, a college librarian with a lifelong love of cooking shows, gives a decade-by-decade breakdown of the evolution of TV cooking as a dead-accurate social barometer. From providing helpful hints for homemakers in the 1950's, catering to the lavish lifestyles and culinary excess of the 80's and satisfying the celeb-hungry, reality-crazed audience of the new millennium, Collins examines how far cooking programs have gone to adapt their content, style and character to both suit and define various moments in the 20th century. Her thorough research is spiced with anecdotes and personal testimonials from...
...easy to chalk that up to simple human carelessness. Certain economists, though, have another way of looking at that and similar findings. They see a systematic psychological breakdown - as a species we're just really bad at understanding costs that come later on. Instead, we assign a disproportionate amount of importance to what's immediate and tangible. We lock eyes with that initial low rate and can't look away. (And, yes, credit-card companies get that...
...tragedy." Although Green is pleading not guilty to all charges, Bouldin did not explicitly affirm his client's innocence during his remarks, emphasizing instead to the jury that the events of March 12 cannot be fully understood without appreciating the horrific conditions that Green's platoon labored under, the breakdown in leadership that it suffered and the clear, repeated warning signs of Green's instability that his superiors routinely ignored. (Read "Should Iraq Prosecute U.S. Soldiers...
...tape for everyone else, including an end to Soviet-style exit permits the 14 million Ecuadorians previously needed to travel outside the country. "People believe in him," says political scientist Simón Pachano at FLACSO University in Quito. "His leadership, the economic situation to date and the breakdown of the old party system all favor...
...Just Between Ourselves (1976) Ayckbourn turned his domestic comedy several notches darker in this account of a couple's disintegrating marriage - and a husband so oblivious that he doesn't notice (or realize he's causing) his wife's emotional breakdown. One of his most daring and frightening plays...