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Studios have been loath to acknowledge their own holes in the security net. A 2003 study led by a group of AT&T researchers found that 77% of online pirated films came from weak links within the movie business itself--from Academy members to critics to cinema projectionists. The report was criticized by studio execs, who found its definition of movie insiders overly broad. Nevertheless, this past year, some studios have started quietly inserting hidden markers in screeners that identify the owners. Under a new pledge, which 80% of Academy members have signed, anyone found to have leaked a screener...
...them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are now spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China is the only one of the 37 nations...
...encyclopedic memory of the people in his life and their happenings. Gifted with gab but loath to gossip, he chronicled his world and its inhabitants as a way of keeping up. I loved our perennial truck rides through Blacksburg, where he would weave together his 77 remarkable years with anecdote and lore. He read his life story on the houses and storefronts here, in this now-bustling, once backwoods home of Virginia Tech. Some of those stories are locked in the collective memories of those who spent time with him. Others, more rarely told, are forever lost. Such...
...Second-Hand Coat” that begins, “I feel/ in her pockets; she wore nice cotton gloves,/ kept a handkerchief box, washed her undies,/ ate at the Holiday Inn, had a basement freezer,/ belonged to a bridge club.” Thrift store clothes are loath to abandon their previous owners...
...never have been, Freedonian. Freedonia, as you may recall, is the fictional country Groucho Marx rules in Duck Soup; for a few weeks at the beginning of freshman year, I claimed it, with a straight face, as my homeland. Because Harvard first-years are loath to admit their ignorance, my declaration of citizenship went mostly unchallenged. Sometimes my fellow first-years, brows furrowed, would ask where Freedonia was, again, and—because these conversations generally took place over dinner in Annenberg—I’d sketch a map of the Balkans on a paper napkin...