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Young people everywhere took Lonely Planet's mantra to heart. There are no reliable figures for how many still do so every year?"millions and millions in Asia," according to a spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association. But Lonely Planet's position as the world's largest independent guidebook producer, with annual sales of its 430 titles pulling in $30 million, gives some indication. India and Southeast Asia on a Shoestring (the "yellow bible") are among the top sellers, with more than half a million bought of each. Founder Tony Wheeler is frequently cited as the man who changed...
...tragic but isolated" rebuttal has been the industry's mantra as it has tried to stave off government regulators. The argument has worked in the past, in part because there are few national statistics on the frequency of problems at assisted-living facilities. The most comprehensive study, a 1999 survey of assisted living in four states by Congress' General Accounting Office, found that 27% of surveyed facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will...
...light. In addition to three spin-off books from Multnomah, the tiny publisher of The Prayer of Jabez, five other publishers have Jabez-inspired books out now or in the works. Among them: Praying Like Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco), I Just Wanted More Land (Xulon Press) and a parody, The Mantra of Jabez (Canon). What, no TV series...
...after nine months living in Harvard Yard, I, too, began to repeat the East Coast Mantra. I called home to talk with family and friends—and spent half of the conversation fixated on their glaring accents. I revised my reply to the inevitable “Where are you from?” inquiry. “Michigan,” I said. “But I want to live in New York.” I hardly lived up to the Puritan pedigree, but at least I was trying...
...well aware that reinvention is the mantra of our time, but how many times can you reinvent yourself before that self becomes tedious? Before the observer concludes, there's no there there? Before you lose touch with whatever made...