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...grant California the waiver. In a show of Detroit's political savvy, the Big Three have also outsourced much of the current fight over the California rules to the National Automobile Dealers Association, long-time critics of legislation. Dealers say they would wind up enforcing a "patchwork quilt" of state regulations, and that the California approach would force automakers to ration certain popular large models. Dolinger says the patchwork argument is nonsense because the rules imposed by the different states are exact copies of the California's regulations. "There is only one standard," he says. He adds that the regulations...
...looking for a particular spark. I started with Eliza in this case, and so it's great to have that key player in place, because you're also looking for differences. You're looking for different energy - I always think of it for some reason as people holding a quilt. Everybody's got hold of a different end, and they've really got to stretch it taut. You don't want two people who perform the same function...
...Years ago, I started saving all those T shirts from soccer league and school plays and breast-cancer walks, even after they no longer fit. They are in a box in the attic, awaiting the day my girls head for college and we patch them into a soft, stretchy quilt made entirely of their adventures and allegiances. Maybe someday we'll do the same for their sons and daughters, make a map of moments on their way to forever...
...always in blossom, and love is as much a game as a goal. In 2005, a French cad named Lewis Wingrove published a blog and later a book graphically cataloguing a year's worth of Meetic conquests (52 dates, 27 of which finished "sous la couette" - under the quilt.) Meetic founder and chief executive Marc Simoncini went ballistic and briefly considered suing. The young women in Meetic's modest office in Boulogne-Billancourt found the whole thing amusing and told Simoncini to lighten up. He now concedes that it's some of the best publicity Meetic has ever...
...publishing TIME: 85 Years of Great Writing, edited by Christopher Porterfield with a rather sentimental introduction by yours truly. The book collects the work of more than 70 of our greatest writers--from James Agee to John McPhee to Nancy Gibbs--and offers a memorable patchwork-quilt portrait of our times. Since 1923, we have been explaining the world to our readers in vivid, deeply reported and authoritative prose--something we do week in and week out. The great writing and reporting in the book form the DNA of the great writing and reporting contained in the magazine...