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...with aircraft, human error rather than mechanical failure is the prime cause of car crashes, typically exacerbated by speed or alcohol, and often both. Many people who love their god, their children and their job nevertheless drive as though there is no tomorrow, foot down, mobile phone to hand, rude and reckless kings and queens of the road. But for 40,000 E.U. citizens each year, the road ends. Peeled from asphalt, picked in pieces from twisted steel and plastic, body-bagged to a mortuary. Others learn that for the rest of their lives the only tires they'll steer...
...praise food extremists like vegetarians? Our planet offers such diversity in available foods, it seems almost rude not to better our bodies with variety. Eat your steak, and have your broccoli too. Variety is the spice of life. DAREN SCHUETTPELZ Ellensburg, Wash...
Today Evanovich and her family live near Hanover, N.H., in a house overlooking the Connecticut River Valley, with a golden retriever and "a rude green parrot." What a difference royalties make. "If I see something I like, I can buy it," she marvels. "I have more money than time now. I don't always have to look for the best buy." (One such purchase: a diamond ring from Tiffany's.) In short, says Evanovich, turning out best sellers "allows you to have different priorities." But for her, one priority remains: writing book nine...
...once said--or should have--that the true test of a free society is not how it treats its best citizen but how it treats its biggest jerk. You've never heard of Rodney Yoder, but he is assuredly one of America's most spectacular jerks. He is preternaturally rude. He sues people constantly. He abused the two women who put up with him. And he has allegedly written scores of letters to public figures that talk of slaughtering them in dreadful ways...
...difference, of course, is that by saying you’re from Harvard people might resent you because they think you’re a workaholic, a social outcast or an elitist; saying you’re from America makes people think you’re fat, ignorant, rude and full of money...