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...also unreal, or surreal, because experienced as a cloud of hyped-up, noisy electrons coalescing on a screen at home, interrupted by commercials. Maybe the class of 2015 will say that their most important public memory - their defining moment of civic awareness - was Bill Clinton wagging that long, bony finger and saying, "I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this one more time... I did not have sex with...
...then there's the moral component, which they were just talking about on "The Sopranos" (suffice it to say the scene involved a gambling butcher, his pinky finger and a meat cleaver): Honor your debts. Critics of the bill contend that often, credit card companies' "predatory lending practices" lure unsuspecting borrowers into debts they can't afford - and therefore the credit card companies should take the lumps with the risk...
...issue of Ergonomics in Design. It was prepared by researchers who took the trouble to test that "easy as 1, 2, 3" blood-sugar meter, which is supposed to let diabetes patients quickly check their blood-sugar levels. But what was advertised as a three-step process (prick your finger, squeeze a drop of blood on the test strip, wait for results) grew to 52 substeps by the time they got the thing working properly...
Alan Furst remembers exactly when he first looked on evil. In Russia, in 1983. A visiting journalist, he saw it reflected in the tired eyes of a middle-aged woman on a Moscow bus; in the frightened obedience of a man when a Soviet policeman shook his finger at the man; in a jab in the back when he offended a Yalta ferry purser. Says Furst, who talks with the same cinematic vigor that fills his six fine spy novels: "I thought, I'll pay him back when I get to the typewriter...
...cases schools rely on lunchroom supervisors and secretarial staff for basic first aid and call 911 for anything more complicated, says Phyllis Pelt, director of the school-nurse certification program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Something as simple as a ring being stuck on a child's finger and it getting swollen--schools will call 911 for that if the nurse is out of the building," says Pelt. "It's a tremendous waste of resources, but how can you blame them...