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...rare moment when Stewart didn't think she could improve on the original. "These are simply the best machines out there," she says. The devices have come a long way since 1901. As we talked, the Pfaff Creative 2170, completely unattended, embroidered intricate monograms onto napkins as if by magic...
...Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), Assistant Professor of Medicine Steven W. Lockley answered questions for a group of about 18 students. “The bad news is, there’s no way around it,” he said. “There’s no magic pill to allow yourself to work on less sleep.” Lockley said that even six hours of sleep can be detrimental to a day’s work. Lack of sleep can cause obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, increased risk of accidents, and poorer learning and memory, Lockley added...
Previous campaign reforms have failed not because they lack a magic ingredient, some legislative abracadabra, but because as long as the government wields extensive power to tax, spend, and regulate, interest groups will try to influence its actions. It’s not clear what proportion of campaign contributions are motivated by such rent-seeking (and therefore whether this is really a big problem), but unless we eviscerate the First Amendment or shrink the government, money is here to stay...
It’s hard to ignore the familiarity of Patrick Wolf’s video for “The Magic Position.” Featuring bright colors, symbolic pigeons, happy dancing people and an orange-haired Wolf, the video manages to invoke Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mary Poppins, and David Bowie simultaneously. The point is, we’ve seen this before in a music video, and can’t help but compare it to something like Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” Thus...
...games with how much came in and how much went out, he can't stop himself from doing it again. In The Triumph of Politics, he describes two tricks the Reaganites (including himself) used to deceive the public about the fiscal condition of the U.S. government. One was the "magic asterisk," used to bury wishful-thinking revenue assumptions in the footnotes, where it was hoped that nobody would discover them. This is essentially similar to the "round trip" loans described in Stockman's indictment last week. Then there is Rosy Scenario, a Cassandra in reverse, who gets carted...