Word: disconnectedness
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Sherrill, a longtime writer of magazine profiles, knows all the hard, disillusioning details of the media and movie worlds and has great fun imagining magazines called We, You, Speak and Gas. Yet what makes her book stronger than a generic Hollywood satire is that even as it sees through the...
The hospital's handling of the disaster has cost Duke whatever gratitude it had earned from the Santillans for writing off the 20% of Jesica's surgery not covered by insurance. On Saturday, the Santillans argued with doctors to keep her on life support, but the absence of brain activity...
The Midwest was also just dysfunctional enough to keep me interested, though perhaps my ending is not so warm and fuzzy. While my summer travels helped connect me with my native Midwest, my trip also made me feel extremely disconnected at times. My cell phone didn’t get...
When North Korea confessed to having a secret nuclear-weapons program, reopened a mothballed reactor, threw out inspectors and disconnected the monitoring cameras, officials from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna and decided not to report all this misbehavior to the U.N. Security Council for action...
Capellas spent much of his first few weeks at the helm doing his best to convince WorldCom's anxious customers and employees that the company, whose revenue has fallen an estimated 15% to 20% in the past year, won't be disconnected anytime soon. Now, with the prospect of a...