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Working-class TV may draw in viewers with the sensational promise of danger. (In Ax Men, computer animation shows what would happen if a logger got speared by a falling branch.) But underneath that is the scary reality, not unique to drillers and fishermen, of surviving boom-and-bust capitalism with no safety net. Deadliest Catch and its ilk celebrate rather than pity their heroes. But for all the big paydays the characters' work can bring, the shows never forget that hard times are one slipup or bad break away. That's the catch, and it's a deadly...
...Britain's biggest firms rose just 2.7% in the 10 years to May, while the average house price shot up 178%, according to Nationwide. That increase produced "a massive reservoir of equity," says Lowe, making British homes "not just a shelter, but increasingly a bank that people could draw on." And draw they did: over the past two years, Britons have borrowed some $200 billion against the value of their homes...
...Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Jack the Ripper did more than any social reformer to draw attention to the intolerable conditions of Whitechapel's slums...
...strategy was failing, and backed him when Bush embraced a better one. Instead of following Bush blindly or denouncing him blindly, the way most politicians in both parties did, he was his own man. If he becomes his own man on domestic policy, too, the contrast will draw itself...
...Ioannou, speaking from phone from Athens, denied an earlier report that MdM colleagues on the island had encouraged the hunger strike as a way to draw attention to the children's plight. She says the children are drinking fluids and eating every two or three days. "But obviously," she said, "a child of 10 or 11 years old not eating for three days is risky for their health...