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...most people who have been sick for an extended period of time, and have been entertained and relieved by watching a constant stream of television and movies, this section will ring true. My father, for instance, when severely ill like Braderman, escaped from illness into a world of Audrey Hepburn classics and "The Fugitive" reruns...
...phony $100 bills are as ubiquitous as construction cranes on the streets of Shanghai. Even in boomtowns, checks and credit cards are in limited use, and cash careens through the system at an alarming rate. Tracking down the counterfeiters is not easy, says Dai Weiwen, head of the exchange section of the Bank of China, because "our methods of detecting fakes are primitive." In recent months, however, banks have begun to install equipment such as money scanners to ferret out forgeries. The Industrial and Commerical Bank of China even fines employees who fail to detect fake currency...
Mayer and Abramson make their most original contribution in the sections that draw a picture of Thomas' personality, which were based on interviews with dozens of people who knew him. By the time he got to law school at Yale, they write, Thomas was already known "not only for the extreme crudity of his sexual banter, but also for avidly watching pornographic films and reading pornographic magazines, which he would describe to his friends in lurid detail." Acquaintances say when they heard testimony that Thomas had asked who put a pubic hair on his Coke can, they recognized his characteristic...
Chapter 266, section 127 of the Massachusetts General Laws states that the maximum penalty for wanton destruction of personal property is up to ten years in prison or a fine based on the value of the property...
...They had a core curriculum there," Hankins said. "People were desperately trying to get into one [professor's] section [of a class] as compared to another...