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...best friends from high school who similarly never learned to drive agreed to join me in my quest for the holy driver’s license. Because she was scheduled to get out of school a few weeks earlier than I, she was in charge of finding the driving school. About a week after I got home, she called me, very excited...
...hand, we accept that we are sick, that we have an eating disorder and we are not interested in spreading our illness. On the other, we are proud of our illness - and once you?ve joined our ranks, we?ll do whatever it takes to enable your quest for the "perfect" body...
...prizewinning memoirist; of head injuries in a fall; in Boise, Idaho. After taking over the newspaper in 1963 following the death of her husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the country, joining the New York Times in its 1971 quest to publish the Pentagon papers and overseeing her paper's history-making pursuit of the Watergate scandal. (See Appreciation, page...
Critics of sponsored searches say the process perverts the quest for information online--that it's like having a reference librarian recommend books based on how much she is paid by the publishers. Gross argues that GoTo is more like a Yellow Pages; users understand that the advertisers who pay the most get the best placement. He notes that GoTo's site states clearly how much each site has paid. But on some search engines powered by GoTo, it can be hard to figure out who has paid...
...work's sake." Ever since, a debate has been raging in Western societies about the nature of toil - what it is and what it's worth. In Blood Sweat & Tears (Texere; 338 pages) Richard Donkin, a Financial Times writer on management topics, sets out to find some answers. The quest is not a complete success, but it does offer some comfort to today's overworked wage slaves. Donkin leads with his chin. In the first few pages he asserts that most of us work to help "make a better world," that "work has come to dominate the lives...