Word: kneeing
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...Beijing News carried the story; Starbucks PR people made placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims to make the country its biggest market after the U.S., so they were ripe for the plucking); and various wangchong - networms, as they are known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced, coffee-flavored milk to tourists for no less than six years. So why the sudden interest in the issue? Trotting out this lame duck (can ducks trot...
...David Cameron: I read these things and they don't quite seem to reflect my life, which is three children under 5. Most of my home life is spent knee-deep in nappies and wailing children, so I don't quite recognize the portraits that are sometimes painted...
...That's where the trouble begins. It's easy enough to locate Cameron's heart; that's with his family. He and Samantha have three children under 5 - the eldest is severely disabled - and he says he spends most of his home life "knee-deep in nappies and wailing children." When his staff urged him to start his trip to Scotland early because of a forecast of gales, Cameron refused, insisting he had to put his children to bed. The wellsprings of his political conviction are harder to trace. If a Kennedy inspires him, it's Bobby, the "wonderful orator...
...the neuroses that afflicts a youth-obsessed society is the fear that childhood isn't what it used to be. Every few years a new book or magazine article warns that kids are being rushed through childhood with barely a second to skin a knee. This month brings three new offerings in the lost-childhood genre: a report in the journal Pediatrics on the loss of free playtime and two books from David Elkind, a psychologist whose The Hurried Child--first published in 1981 and now available in a 25th-anniversary edition--has made him the dean of too-fast...
...third, most urgent reason we need our reps is that hospitals are low on trained staff these days. With the myriad parts and pieces it takes to do a spine fusion, knee replacement or robotic prostatectomy, operating room staffs need help keeping the trays and trays of little parts organized and ready for action. In community hospitals especially, with no layer of surgical-resident help to keep things organized, OR staffs rely on product reps to set up and get them through procedures smoothly. And as more and more of our nurses are immigrants from countries that don't have...