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...person I wanted. To me he represents the best of popular culture. He's very versatile and super-talented. He's like a modern-day Jimmy Stewart. And he's full of goodwill. There's no negativity about...
...Another idea: Start a modular home industry - not to build "souped-up" trailer homes but quality custom-builts, a modern-day version of the old Sears catalog home. KB Homes is already using similar technology, and why couldn't New Orleans, he wonders, attract modular homebuilders to churn out a new generation of affordable housing for the nation? The AFL-CIO investment fund in Washington, notes Kroloff, is looking to pour $1 billion into New Orleans...
...yearbook. She's a professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the object of her most recent investigations is not the kind of thing you would think social scientists spend their time on. Her quarry, sociologically speaking, is the elusive, zealously guarded heart of the modern-day teenage boy. Giordano--an author of such articles as "A Conceptual Portrait of Adolescent Romantic Relationships" and "Hooking Up: The Relationship Contexts of 'Nonrelationship' Sex"--believes something most people don't: not only do adolescent boys have hearts, but they're also the biggest romantics around...
...this kind. They are inherently corny. And however realistically they're shot, they are generally regarded as bad for us, encouraging false dreams of hope, even of glory. I agree - in theory. And as sports become an ever more smoothly functioning and soulless corporate machine I doubt that a modern-day Dick Vermeil would try to energize his team's fan base with an open tryout. Even at the time he was criticized...
...done by mad scientist types muttering arcane formulae under their breath. But why does much of society have that impression? Perhaps because buried deep in the collective Western psyche, there is an ingrained nervousness, an anxiety toward science. We stand in awe of science, its discoveries, its modern-day miracles that we use every day, that we couldn’t imagine living without. How many of us truly know the physics behind the computers we type at daily, or the biology of Tylenol, which we trust to rid us of the slightest headache? We do not understand the fruits...