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...wasn’t allowed to speak about apartheid at cocktail parties in South Africa,” she said at a press conference after her award ceremony. Unwilling to compromise and join the Foreign Service, Schoonmaker moved to New York and answered an ad for an assistant film editor, chiefly due to her childhood love of film...
...golf-gear maker make, so in 2001 Wood hired Tom Stites, a soft-spoken, well-respected club designer. On a wall in Stites' small office at the Research and Development Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the message "Innovate or Die" headlines the whiteboard that serves as Stites' cocktail napkin of ideas. "I keep my blinds closed," he says with a smile, to keep that valuable piece of wall decoration away from prying eyes. Stites learned his craft from tour-champion Ben Hogan, and when he joined Nike, he arrived armed with a box full of prototype clubs that...
...novel, “The Third People.” The bite of UGD is often soft, which may be why Random House sent the book straight to paperback. But the message is always fierce, like the character who tells a woman at a cocktail party of the three possessions he would bring on a desert island—“Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ James Merrill’s Collected Poems, and my lucky Sonic Youth T-shirt”—then actually ends up stranded...
...clearly good reasons for this; medicine as a whole is getting better and we expect higher levels of knowledge in our docs. I certainly wouldn't want anyone but a neurosurgeon dissecting a tumor out of my brain, or anyone but smart oncologist coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing...
That, however, was not the end of it. The body still had to be sliced and diced by a medical examiner, who predictably concluded that the cause of death was a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs—from methadone to choral hydrate (an ingredient of animal tranquilizers)—in her bloodstream...