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...expanded roads and bridges in sparsely developed areas than maintenance and repairs for dilapidated roads and bridges in urban and suburban areas. Politicians love ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and federal and state rules are often skewed to promote new sprawl roads. And it's no coincidence that these roads mean big money for home builders, oil companies, asphalt producers, engineering firms and the rest of the highway-building industry; a powerful coalition of business groups lobbied for the bill as Americans for Transportation Mobility. And how do you think they came up with that acronym...
...that I mean that there's something slightly comic in the formalities of 18th century language on screen that encourages us to look down at the characters speaking it. Poor dears! If only they could more frankly speak their desires, if only they were not so hedged by the ruling decorum of their historical moment. They encourage in us a kind of smugness, a sense that if they were only more psychologically more hip and open (as we are), their lives would be more fully human, a little less cartoonish. These films therefore miss much of Austen's satirical edge...
...wasn’t a surprise that Sean was looking for a leadership opportunity that he probably couldn’t have while at Harvard,” Hyman said, “but it does mean that we’re going to have to hire someone to help...
...Christakis said. “If our findings are correct, a 20-pound weight loss in you might also induce weight loss...in your social network. There may be an additional 180-pound loss, so our cost effectiveness has gone up by a factor of ten. So this would mean we’d have to rethink how we calculate cost-effectiveness...
...both know he's great. But to many young people--I mean bright, film-savvy kids--he's Ingmar who? What relevance do his films have today...