Word: serialization
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...know about you, I feel kind of cheap every time I consider this business as if it were a thrilling detective novel to be read during a summer thunderstorm because I don't know a single thing about the character of Gary Condit or about serial killings in the District or about the guy who works at Levy's health club or her landlord or the other people living in her apartment house...
...best thing JetBlue may have going for it is Neeleman. One of seven siblings, who has nine children of his own, Neeleman has been dreaming about airplanes since he saw a red one on his second birthday cake. A serial travel entrepreneur, he started his first business as an accounting undergraduate at the University of Utah. He has launched four airlines, including Morris Air and Canada's WestJet Airlines, each one more successful than the last. Neeleman, who retains such geeky attributes as wearing a calculator-watch combination, even developed the computer system that became the basis for e-ticketing...
When Americans first became interested in the idea of criminal "profiling," it seemed a heroic pursuit. A decade ago we fell in love with Clarice Starling, the fictional FBI agent chasing a serial killer. But was Starling a racial profiler? Remember the scene in The Silence of the Lambs in which Special Agent Crawford asks for a description of the man the two are after? Her first answer is that the killer is "a white male." It just so happens that nearly all American serial killers have been white men. It just so happens that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage...
Ghost World originated in Eightball, a serial comic book by Daniel Clowes, whose anatomizing of anomie--Pussey!, David Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters came to me spontaneously, fully formed, when I drew them in my sketchbook," says Clowes in his Oakland, Calif., home. "They felt like two parts of my personality. Enid is the id, dissatisfied with everything, not sure where she belongs; Rebecca is more pragmatic, trying to make the best...
Frequent moving won't work for most people with young children or strong ties to a neighborhood. Still, some version of serial homesteading may make sense for you. Here's how it works...