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...under the influence. But other jobs should clearly be given only to the perpetually sober: we don't want our railroad operators or nuclear-plant employees to be smoking up on the job. So it seems appropriate that U.S. employees in those high-risk positions are routinely subjected to random drug-testing...
...seems a ripe time for novel podcasting to grow. Traditional book publishers are struggling. Book sales are down; MacMillan has laid off employees, as have Random House and Simon & Schuster; and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has suspended the purchase of most new manuscripts. With advance money drying up as well as contracts, Terra says that aspiring writers now feel that "maybe I should try something on my own" and build an audience online...
Scott Sigler of San Francisco also missed out on getting his first novel published, with a deal collapsing in late 2001. But like Hutchins, he built a big Internet fan base on novel podcasting, which led to a 2007 deal with The Crown Publishing Company (a division of Random House), one believed to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sigler reached a milestone this month by cracking the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list with Contagious, a first for an author emerging from the podcast genre. The print run for Contagious is 80,000 copies...
Anger, by contrast, usually makes people more willing to take risks. Harvard public-policy professor Jennifer Lerner has shown this in a series of papers. She and her colleagues gave random groups of people a classic risk test in which they were asked how they would respond to a disease outbreak expected to kill 600. The subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that...
...lower halves of a pair of dancers. Another highlight comes when Aurélia’s head is quite cleverly made the star of a puppet show for...puppets. But the puppets’ appearances extend beyond that vignette and become a little too creepy. Their presence seems random and not as satisfyingly counterintuitive as the Oratorio’s other reversals—like when Aurélia buys an ice cream cone that’s boiling hot. One of the most interesting parts of the show was the varying responses elicited by each of Aur?...