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...told ourselves that facing our mortality changed our attitudes toward work and life. Yet here we are, still working in those office towers, still catching those planes. This is the paradox of our post-9/11 "reprioritizing": America--credit-addicted, 25-brands-of-toothpaste-on-the-shelf America--cannot afford for us to examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless...
...market for BIRTH CONTROL DEVICES is positively fertile, with several new products jostling for shelf space. They work like the Pill, secreting the same hormones--estrogen and the synthetic progestin--that are bad news as long-term therapy for postmenopausal women but are still considered relatively safe as contraceptives...
...told ourselves that facing our mortality changed our attitudes toward work and life. Yet here we are, still working in those office towers, still catching those planes. This is the paradox of our post-9/11 "reprioritizing": America - credit-addicted, 25-brands-of-toothpaste-on-the-shelf America - cannot afford for us to examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless...
...These walls off Selayar can be explored solely by scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is somewhere between giddiness and terror. Floating above an abyss populated by the flickering forms of deepwater sea creatures takes some getting used to, but distractions abound. The wall is covered with a moving mosaic of fat, brown sea cucumbers, vivid corals, shrinking anemones and tiny, glittering fish. The deeper...
...plus a handful of people, who by the grace of fortune, who were slow at making their morning coffee or decided to change travel plans and so missed a doomed airplane...One of the real keepers of the flurry of 9/11 publications, destined to find a place on the shelf and be turned to time and again...