Word: collections
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...know. It's a problem I have, I guess. I collect a bunch of junk from the turn of the century - sheet music and records and musical instruments. Essentially, I think I just prefer the craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era. And I don't know if that's just the result of me having the benefit of hindsight and sort of editing things out, or if it really is there. But it seems [there is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and, I guess, threatening...
...waiting room and saw a mother pushing a sweet little girl in a wheelchair. The girl wore a stocking cap, having lost her hair. An old man was called to the desk, accompanied by his son. A nurse explained to the son how to collect a stool sample. And then a stocky woman in white called my name and led me down the hall to an examining room and told me to strip to my shorts and don a small gown. She was friendly and matter of fact in the manner of small-town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking...
...keep some cash handy for the flight home. International departure and arrival taxes are on the rise, along with such levies as airport service and security charges, not to mention the more obscure "noise taxes." While many of these fees are built in to ticket prices, countries like Jamaica collect them on departure--cash only...
...saying that by holding the tobacco companies publicly accountable, they've already racked up an important victory. "This was never only about money," Rosenblatt said. "This was about showing up these companies for what they really are." Many of the plaintiffs--some of whom are unlikely to live to collect any damages--agreed. "No amount of money is going to change the way I have to eat," says throat-cancer victim Amodeo, who has to ingest nutrition through a hole in his stomach. "Fifteen cents, $15 million--it doesn't change...
...wives the same age--and of the poor widows, 80% weren't poor while their husbands were alive. Half of all couples who married in the past 20 years will divorce, and a mere 28% of divorced women are granted ongoing financial support. Of those, a third never collect a penny of the alimony or child support due them...