Word: helling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rethink the structure and the form of the outer solar system. Our exhibit was that way for a year, and nobody complained about it until it showed up in the New York Times, Page One: "PLUTO'S NOT A PLANET? ONLY IN NEW YORK." That's when all hell broke loose and the hate mail started...
...stately, quality-controlled and relatively expensive. New Publishing is cheap, promiscuous and unconstrained by paper, money or institutional taste. If Old Publishing is, say, a tidy, well-maintained orchard, New Publishing is a riotous jungle: vast and trackless and chaotic, full of exquisite orchids and undiscovered treasures and a hell of a lot of noxious weeds. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
...cooked, and maybe the rack of lamb he undercooked, but he got that cover story. Big days, I told Faulk, require taking big chances. There was silence on the other end. "That's a great story," Faulk said. "My question would be, If that's your story, what the hell are you doing coaching? But if you were getting your editing crew going, that would work great." I felt pretty good until I realized you can get an editing crew going with free pizza...
...start with the statistics: First, most plane crashes are more like this one than we think. More people survive than die. Aircraft in distress don't drop, screaming, out of the sky into the fires of hell. They end up on the ground or in water, and people must get out quickly. Those who fare best are usually those who are prepared: the pilot who has flown for four decades and trained for calamity; the man in the exit row who has read the safety card...
...sort of made a joke about it at first—the hate mail we get is pretty ridiculous,” Neely said, explaining that she often fields calls from people telling Dershowitz that he will “rot in hell...