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Fast and crude, Rall's drawing style perfectly matches the urgency and tone of the book. Boxy, flat characters with both eyes on the sides of their head inhabit environs with only the barest of detail. The cartoons function strictly as a way to efficiently set the place and action. As a result the fifty-pages-long comic in the middle of the book makes much of the prose chapters redundant. It does seem like the speediness of this book's appearance comes at the price of cohesiveness...
...simply punching in the product number. Nearly 20% of those who shopped at the website during the last two months of 2001 used this catalog-linked "quick order" feature, reports NetRatings senior analyst Dawn Brozek. Lands' End is an innovator in other online features, including a "virtual modeling" function that lets shoppers build a 3-D screen image of themselves and "try on" items. Online orders accounted for more than $300 million of its $1.6 billion in sales last year, and are growing three times as fast as catalog purchases. With only 16 discount outlets and one test store, Lands...
People don't function in the same way. If they're working or have social relationships, you start to see a deterioration in those relationships. They're difficult to be around. If they drank occasionally, drinking may become a problem where it wasn't before. They become irritable and easily angry with people in ways they weren't before. Some of them openly express feelings of desperation. Very often there's a lot of anxiety, which is also a big risk factor. The other emotion you see very often in elderly suicides is guilt, that somehow they did wrong...
...organization's financial operation is in shambles, and Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for operations. But the administration's message, coming on the back of legislative probes and media questioning of the administration's handling of intelligence and security priorities before that attack, could actually function to undermine public confidence...
...think it’s very important that the central administration function so that all people who need the information and can contribute it are in the room,” Hyman says. “It creates a spirit of cooperation...