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...visited three notable parties on the Saturday and Sunday evenings seeking the inner truth of the film industry, and I found what I came looking for. Well, I was also seeking free champagne and fancy food, so it's possible I got confused...
...deterioration of her ears owing to aging--a condition known as presbycusis. Like more than 80% of hearing-impaired people, White cannot be treated medically or surgically because the damage to her ears is sensorineural. That means some of the 30,000 to 50,000 hair cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound information to the auditory nerve, have been injured or destroyed, leaving the ear "like a piano with missing keys," according to David Fabry, director of audiology at the Mayo Clinic and president of the American Academy of Audiology...
Otherwise, the loosely defined inner circle consists of four or five highly talented friends, including Jerry Yang and David Filo, whose brainchild grew to world importance in six years. Think of trying to manage the Beatles, circa 1970. "You can't come in and start slashing and cutting," says Lowell Singer, senior new-media analyst at banking and management firm Robertson Stephens, based in San Francisco. "You have to respect the Yahoo culture...
...surely does for Max (played by Jessica Alba, a kind of Angelina Jolie Jr.); she sizes up a man by scanning him from head to crotch. Other Max attributes were once the prerogative of heroic males: a gravity, a radiating inner ache; a past and a quest. She's lonely on top, flirting with potential mates but searching for a mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the "Tiger" women.) And though the show is perky...
...inferiority that afflicted blacks during the bad old days of Jim Crow. But despite our growing affluence and our gains from the civil rights movement, a lot of African Americans seem to have been unable to put those nagging racial self-doubts behind them. In my opinion, such inner fears constitute the most difficult obstacle to our continued progress...