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...best doctor" for Anna and her family, so we go through her long and detailed history, her unremarkable physical exam, all her films and reports. I don't really disagree with anything the other doctors have had to say about her and there's been no major screw-up in her treatment. I am amazed at how little Anna (and her family) actually understand about what's wrong with her though. We spend a long time discussing arthritis, stenosis and pain. The only addition I can make to her treatment is a basic explanation of the anatomy of the arthritic...
...SCREW CAPS AND GLASS STOPPERS Influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has predicted that by 2015 more wines will be opened with the twist of a wrist than the pull of a cork. Screw caps eliminate the oxidation and taint problems, are simple to open--no corkscrew required!--and reseal easily. After decades of being associated with cheap wine, they're finally overcoming their image problem. New Zealand already closes more than 80% of its wines with screw caps. The French even use them on a few prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies...
Enterprising California winemakers are embracing them too. Don Sebastiani & Sons playfully named one of its brands Screw Kappa Napa. Randall Grahm, owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard, held a mock funeral for the cork in 2002; today 99% of his wines use screw caps. Fetzer and Stone Cellars by Beringer have gone so far as to put their single-serving screw-top wines in plastic bottles. Whitehall Lane goes a step further and uses elegant glass stoppers for its expensive bottlings...
...happens. Things go well and we get our carry— usually about 20 percent of the profits. If things don’t go well, we still get the fees. In a big fund like ours, the industry average of 3 percent goes a long way. If we screw up, we liquidate the fund, return the diminished capital, and start the whole thing all over again. It’s a win-win-win. Q: So to get more fees, you always want to get bigger? A: Exactly. Q: But doesn’t getting bigger require riskier positions...
...clearly frightened of losing. You can smell the fear on her. It wafts around her like a cheap perfume: Eau de Don't Let Me Screw Up and Flush My Chances Down the Toilette. As a result of her fear of losing and the soul-sapping tyranny of trying to please and placate everybody, she's become more processed than Velveeta. You can almost see every word that comes out of her mouth first being marched through the different compartments of her brain - analyzed, evaluated, and vetted by each of them. What will the consultants think of this? How will...