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...takes questions in Loughborough or chats to trainees learning to strip down truck engines at an apprenticeship scheme in the neighboring constituency, that's exactly how Cameron comes across. It's cleverly pitched. He doesn't conceal his heritage (or flatten his upper-class accent); he finesses it. His interlocutors don't feel patronized - they sense that he understands them and cares about what they care about...
...small plastic pots of glue with brushes and quickly slather on the glue to the outside of their paddle. Vertical stripes? Horizontal bars? Swirly circles? Each player has his own pattern, and once they find one, they rarely stray from it. Some even bring small metal rolling pins, to flatten out any bubbles or uneven surfaces...
...because Samuels rejects a structure that would flatten out the ridges in the absurdity of American reality, he often meanders and digresses; some essays don’t seem to fit in the book’s overarching theme at all. While reading the essay about Super Bowl XL in Detroit, I was not at all sure how describing Stevie Wonder as a “playful, gigantic black baby who has absorbed all terrestrial sounds and language in a single gulp” or Aretha Franklin as a “300-pound mountain of congealed hurt?...
...sheer number of siblings in a family can also trump birth order. The 1% income difference that Black detected from child to child tends to flatten out as you move down the age line, with a smaller earnings gap between a third and fourth child than between a second and third. The IQ-boosting power of tutoring, meanwhile, may actually have less influence in small families, with parents of just two or three kids doing most of the teaching, than in the six- or eight-child family, in which the eldest sibs have to pitch in more. Since the Norwegian...
...long as home values rise and interest rates stay low, everyone's happy. But once prices flatten or fall and interest rates creep up, those once-manageable house payments can jump quickly. Subprime borrowers are most vulnerable. Many can't sell or refinance because they owe more than their home is now worth...