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Gwyneth Paltrow as a co-star? Are you kidding? Janet Martin, NEW YORK CITY...
...Martin Amis is a cold-hearted bastard.I don’t know that for certain, of course, but I can’t see how anyone with any true emotion or sensitivity could produce the 14 pieces collected in “The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.” He attacks his subject with precisely the level of extreme rationality that he professes to value, and the resulting analyses are shocking both for their lucidity and their ruthlessness.The roughly 200-page volume contains pieces the Englishman published in American and British periodicals between September...
After students and parents raised concerns about displayed calorie counts leading to or worsening eating disorders, Harvard University Dining Services removed the index cards detailing nutritional information from dining halls this year. HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin said several students and families asked HUDS to consider the impact of making detailed nutritional information known to students. “The feeling was that for people who have eating disorders or who struggle with issues around the literal value of food, the emphasis on nutrition information does not always lead people to eat in a healthy manner,” Martin said...
...primary goal of online-reputation-management firms like Martin's is to expunge the first page of a client's Google search results of all negative links. "We call the top five search results the 'danger zone,' because you don't even have to scroll down to see them," says Martin. For $1,500 a month, Reputation Hawk will actually create new Web pages that cast you in a positive light (usually with your name in the URL), post links to positive Web mentions of you on social-bookmarking sites like Digg and Del.icio.us and start positive blogs on Blogger...
...take all this new information we create and put so much pressure on the top 10 results in Google that the false negative stuff gets pushed down," says Martin, who says it can take months to burnish an online image. "Once it's pushed out of the top 10, they're pretty much O.K." (Of course, it's not a perfect solution - readers who click to the second page of your search results will uncover your cyberskeletons...