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...appreciate that a city as tiny and intimate as Galway can be cosmopolitan in its way. This town attracts both the normal and the freakish from all over the world, melted together in a big love-fest of live music, dusty bookstores and drunken walks home over the quaint cobblestoned streets. I love Galway so much already, and I know by the time I go home and I’ve walked those streets infinite times, I’ll feel like it’s mine...
...when intellectual-property theft evokes images of MP3 files being downloaded illegally from the Internet, Kumar and his fellow booksellers might seem like quaint throwbacks. Yet he and his colleagues remain the single biggest threat to India's book-publishing industry, which generates some $1.5 billion in revenues a year. You see them everywhere in Indian cities, perching on busy sidewalks hawking new editions of everything from pulp thrillers to the autobiography of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch to the latest novels from highbrow writers such as Salman Rushdie. Up to one quarter of all books sold in India...
Nearly 4,500 miles apart, this quaint center of Russian orthodoxy and America’s bastion of higher education are unlikely adversaries in a tug-of-war over tradition...
...survive: some took showers with their clothes on and then went to bed--wet. A colleague recommended sleeping with a frozen towel over your face. Other people descended into the catacombs, where 6 million skeletons were pleasantly cool. Météo France, the national weather service, posted hopelessly quaint tips: wet your draperies, and maybe even spritz a little perfume on them to sweeten...
Consider those cases in which outside values trump the patient's expressed desire. The first is life. Even if the patient asks you to, you may not kill him. In some advanced precincts--Holland and Oregon, for example--this is thought to be a quaint idea, and the state permits physicians to perform "assisted suicide." That is a terrible mistake, for the state and for the physician. And not only because it embarks us on a slippery slope where putting people to death in the name of some higher humanity becomes progressively easier...