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...machine, which resembles an asthma inhaler attached to a car battery through IV tubing, mixes pure oxygen with liquor. Mixing in oxygen means alcohol can skip the digestive tract, eliminating the need for the liver to process the drinks—and thus the chance of getting violently ill. AWOL’s users rave about hangover-free mornings, the carb-free intake of alcohol, and a stronger buzz, all for the price of $299 for the machine or $10 a shot at your local trendy...
...calling Summers “one of the brightest and most versatile economic thinkers in academia,” while a flatteringly extensive 1991 profile in the New York Times called him “the rare economist who is equally at home in the ivory tower of pure theory and the down-and-dirty world of policy...
Certainly, Hollywood’s general reliance on a pop music sensibility is a fantastic trend, and one that, for better or worse, made it impossible to go back to the “pure score” (Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On” has shown us why). But Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack for About a Boy (a fitting title) was a masterful use of music both fitting the plot material, and fitting around...
...moves from one low-paid job to another, Wynhausen finds that for most of her co-workers, the concept of job security, let alone job satisfaction, is pure whimsy. What she experiences is the backwash of one of the labor market's great transforming trends: Australia may be enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in 30 years, but a quarter of workers are now casuals, and two-thirds of all jobs created since 1990 were casual positions...
...guessing a majority of the varsity football team is ashamed. I hope so anyway. I replay this incident in my big, giant head, and I’m baffled. What is it within you that pushes you to act with such hostility in response to actions of pure amity? Does an act of good will merit such response...