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...always list older musicians as your influences yet you are very active in the contemporary indie scene. You worked on albums with Beth Orton and Cat Power and you co-produced one of Jenny Lewis's albums. Do you listen to contemporary stuff now? Not as much as I listen to older music. I'm definitely inspired by music that's happening today and the music of my friends, but my biggest influences are still older records...
...case list is not pretty. In August 2007, a pregnant woman was refused admission by nine hospitals in a rural part of western Japan, even after miscarrying in the ambulance. In October 2008, another woman was denied by eight hospitals; she was eventually admitted, but three days after giving birth and undergoing surgery, she died. The following month, an 82-year old woman was refused by five hospitals in her hometown, and died en route to a hospital in another city. In 2007, the percentage of cases that require immediate medical attention within total emergency transportation for the year...
...could be doing nothing, but you’d rather be here working on fractions, which rank up there with “snitches” and “beaucoup pages on this test” on students’ “Most Hated” list? Well, fine—what can I say? Sit down and start converting mixed numbers...
...number 13 has been unlucky for centuries. Some historians peg the superstition to the 13 people who attended the Last Supper (neither Jesus nor Judas came out of that one O.K.), but ancient Babylon's Code of Hammurabi omits the number 13 in its list of laws, so the superstition dates back to at least 1700 BC. Thirteen is so unlucky, in fact, that in 1881 an organization called the Thirteen Club attempted to improve the number's reputation. At the first meeting, the members (all 13 of them) walked under ladders to enter a room covered with spilled salt...
...great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...