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...ever. When I was working next door, they let me wear the shop's clothes because what I wore normally wasn't good enough." She prefers walking to driving, sometimes hiking for two and a half hours over the hills into Kiama, then catching the train back. She's quick to laugh, but not a reveler. Her idea of a party is having a couple of friends over to her place and cooking for them...
...Chinese weren't always so quick to leap to the defense of man's best friend. When I first arrived four years ago, my Canadian neighbor's dog Genghis-a pug with a self-important streak that rivals that of his namesake?was one of the very few dogs in our Beijing neighborhood. Other people on my street kept pets. There were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through...
...Great American City” that tracks the disaster’s human triumphs—and its institutional failures.Arriving on the scene last August, what he found was a scene of near-total devastation. As the levees around New Orleans failed, The Times-Picayune’s newsroom quickly flooded.“The water was not receding, but rising,” Horne says. “[We] piled everyone into the circulation trucks and just barely got out.”Horne rallied his news team in Baton Rouge, where they started printing on borrowed printing presses...
...multiple users, logged in from different computers, to update the same spreadsheet simultaneously while text-chatting in a separate window. (The chart is stored on a Google server, rather than locally on a PC's hard drive.) You can invite others to edit or view your spreadsheet with a quick email without leaving the page. Google, having recently purchased Writely.com is expected to introduce a similar free tool for writers who wish to collaborate in real time...
...Apologize to your public. Rinse. Repeat. "Our country doesn't like its celebrities to be hate-mongers," says Howard Rubenstein, who has handled publicity for clients like Naomi Campbell, Leona Helmsley (and TIME magazine). "The public is quick to forgive and forget, but in this case, he may need to ask for forgiveness repeatedly." Gibson has already started this process, issuing two statements within days of the offending comments, the second more specific and remorseful than the first...