Word: breakfasting
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There are few better ways to start a day than with the breakfast and the morning newspaper. Those gray pages are not just a source of information, but also the product of hard work and devotion; they convey news hierarchically, not linearly, giving the reader a sense for what is most important, not just what happened most recently. Even the most mundane newspaper layout is a combination of art and psychology, the result of painstaking reworking designed to catch your eye and tell you all you need to know, concisely, unequivocally, and wittily. But the beauty of paper-based media...
...check out his Sept. 19 column, about energy-gobbling cities like Doha and Dalian: “Hey, I’m really glad you switched to long-lasting compact fluorescent light bulbs in your house. But the growth in Doha and Dalian ate all your energy savings for breakfast.” Tom! I imagine him waking up, staring at his hands, and saying, “My God, it’s all meaningless!” before writing this one. (4) The Onion (?!) What the hell? Thomas wrote two columns this year that copied whole paragraphs straight...
...Bachelet has not hesitated to eat humble pie over Transantiago. She has apologized publicly and, at a recent breakfast with foreign correspondents, said the system's failures caused her "deep pain." The debacle is a particular embarrassment to Chile, which prides itself on being an oasis of order in an often chaotic continent. A parliamentary commission is investigating what went wrong with Transantiago, and its report is not expected to make happy reading. But Santiaguinos will have plenty of time to read it, while waiting on line for buses...
...wakes at 5:30 every morning, then wakes her daughter and gets her ready for the day. The pair eat breakfast and by 6:45 a.m. is in Woo’s recently acquired ’98 Plymouth Neon. Woo drops Amarrah off at a day-care center in Charlestown.“She’s very, very, almost strangely understanding of the fact that I’m in school,” Woo says...
...always insisted that the purpose of the missile-defense system is to protect Europe and the U.S. from an Iranian missile attack. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about," Air Force Lieutenant General Henry "Trey" Obering, chief of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said over breakfast earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic cost and financial burden ($4 billion through 2013) becomes increasingly dubious...