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...your pardon, but to describe "Trashed" as anything other than the ultimate of all "shitty-job" stories would be patronizing and dishonest. What else could you call it when Derf hauls fly-encrusted, sagging baggies from the dog kennels? Told with perfect comic timing the hilariously filthy humiliations pile up. Continually on the lookout for the kind of petty foreman who always makes these jobs that much more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch in horror as they forget...
...applicant sent in all of his corrected papers—since kindergarten. Another applicant sent in a personal diary. A third applicant sent a huge pile of recommendation letters...
...last fall, evidence against kava was starting to pile up. Health authorities in Switzerland and Germany had gathered records of close to 30 incidents--"adverse-event reports," in the clinical jargon--in which kava users suffered severe liver damage. A few patients required transplants, and at least one died. The response in Europe has been swift and decisive. In the U.S., however, the FDA's hands are tied until researchers can establish a definite causal link between kava and liver disease. That could take years...
Mostly it's the song. Can't Get You Out of My Head, written by former teen queen Cathy Dennis, is one of those weird pop miracles that pile on the hooks and dare you not to listen--it's catchier than Ebola. The rest of Fever is not unlistenable, just unremarkable...
Especially when, as any admissions officer will admit over a drink, it is almost impossible to determine who in a pile of reasonably bright 17-year-olds will turn out to be the best student three years from now, let alone manifest the guts and creativity needed for a stellar career. British students specialize early. They win university places on the basis of three written exams graded by strangers, usually teachers on holiday with a big pile to get through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel...