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...AbMal-short for abortion malpractice-that encourages patients to file lawsuits against abortion providers. L.D.I. claims to have a network of more than 600 lawyers nationwide ready to file such cases and has been recruiting more with a mailing to thousands of personal-injury lawyers and the distribution of a how-to video and a brochure promising that "abortion malpractice is poised to become the most prolific litigation opportunity of a decade...
Cole had no formal training. He learned about landscape painting from theoretical tracts and the early-19th century equivalent of how-to manuals, backed up by a great deal of attentive looking. He couldn't draw the human figure -- but then neither could his hero, Claude Lorrain. His efforts in that direction, as in a huge painting of Prometheus chained to his rock with the eagle flying in for lunch, were risible. Wisely, he kept his Indians and woodsmen and saints in the far distance...
...unwelcome excess of geographical jokes for a while (A friend of mine just got caught smuggling books into Kansas; they had to let him go, though, nobody could prove they were books), but I'm sure we'll become mature about it by the time we master the how-to parts of our assignment...
What PBS shows he watches All the How-to shows, like "This Old House," "Victory Garden," "New Yankee Workshop." I usually watch them twice, once on Saturday and once on Sunday, just in case I missed something...
...latest SafetyWalk teaser is a bit ambiguous. "Look Both Ways. Use a Condom. Call SafetyWalk," it reads. Taken one way, it's a list of fundamental precautions. In the wrong hands, though, it becomes a frightening prescription for behavior--something, perhaps, that might be detailed in an Inside Edge how-to feature...