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...Death by Lesiure: A Cautionary Tale By Chris Ayres 300 pages; Grove Press...
...plan was to max out on leisure, binge on self-gratification until I could take it no more," writes Ayres in his comic satire, the satire part of which is more satisfying than the comic. As a portrait of pre-recession, debt-financed, image-obsessed Los Angeles, Death By Leisure is spot-on in its details, though the British writer succeeds in making the city sound like the worst place in America, full of status-obsessed grifters like himself. Whether it's sneaking into Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch or finagling his way into a studio exec bash, Ayres simultaneously...
...down this November.Christakis—a sociology professor with a joint appointment at Harvard Medical School and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—is best known for his work on health and social networks. His current research explores how factors such as health, disability, and death can influence an individual’s social network.“As I have spent the last few years examining the ripple effects of social networks and how social structures affect lives, I’ve become more mindful of the effect I have on others and they...
Fortunately, our leaders solved those problems long ago, by boldly appointing czars to clean them up. So naturally, now faced with the near death of the U.S. auto industry, the government's impulse was to crown a car czar. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...