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...tell the difference between flaws in a person that they should accept and flaws in their marriage? It's a tricky thing in a relationship to figure out what is the thing that I'm going to shut my eyes and let it go and what I'm going to challenge and draw attention to. Somewhere in every relationship we have to find enough space to be able to absorb the contradiction that we very much love this person but sometimes we absolutely cannot tolerate their company at all. I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages...
...that we are building medicine as a series of pieces. It's like building a car without understanding it's a system. We concentrate on getting the very best people and the best technologies, in the same way you might put a car together by saying, Hey, let's takes the brakes of a Ferrari and the chassis of a BMW and the body of a Volvo. When you put it together, you just get a pile of junk that's very expensive and doesn't work very well. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's approach to health care...
Given that the world is warming due in large part to business practiced as usual, it might seem unwise to let corporations take the lead on climate. And without at least the threat of government carbon caps and other regulatory action, it is hard to believe that all industries would take the initiative to reduce emissions - especially as the world staggers out of a recession. But with the current U.N. climate system looking dysfunctional in the wake of Copenhagen, and the prospects of cap-and-trade uncertain in the U.S. Senate, Branson might be playing the only game in town...
...Harvard hoopster with pro-level talent? Yes, that's one reason Lin is a novelty. But let's face it: Lin's ethnicity might be a bigger surprise. Fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players are Asian-American. Sure, the occasional giant from China, like Yao Ming, has played in the NBA. But in the U.S., basketball stars are African Americans first, Caucasians second, and Asians ... somewhere far down the line. (One historical footnote: Wat Misaka, a Japanese American, became in 1947 the first nonwhite person to play in the NBA.) (See the classic sports photography...
...Some passengers also know that liquid gels in plastic containers less than 100 ml don't set off magnetometers. They say they simply put them in their pockets and let their shirts hang over them as they walk through airport checkpoints in Nigeria - and head for Europe...