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...David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark paint used on the hands of vintage clocks...
...damn plane! Calculate the odds of being harmed by a terrorist! It's still about as likely as being swept out to sea by a tidal wave." JOHN MCCAIN, Senator from Arizona, in his new book, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life...
...night was the rendition of All Hail West Texas’s “Jenny,” with its care-free promotion of “900 cc’s of raw whining power, / no outstanding warrant for my arrest / hi diddle dee dee / god-damn! / it’s the pirate’s life for me!” The goat-like Darnielle makes neither a convincing motorcycle rider, nor law-breaker, nor pirate; but at that moment on the stage, with the crowd actively engaged in his every word, he might have made...
...Cell phone etiquette dictates that your new ring is 10 times more annoying than the conversation you’re about to have, so just answer the damn thing. If you’re in class, try as subtly as possible to press “ignore” and then write an explanatory text message to the caller. In social settings, it’s generally okay to answer the phone as long as you keep the phone call short and sweet. But never—under any circumstances—answer the phone while comforting a sobbing friend...
...damn elevator! Fly on the damn plane! Calculate the odds of being harmed by a terrorist! It's still about as likely as being swept out to sea by a tidal wave!" JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona Senator, in his new book, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life