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...billboards, at soccer games, in classrooms and on TV. "[Nayeli] was taught at school, and then would remind us to do it at home," says Claudia Quispe, Nayeli's mom. It's not that she and her family didn't wash their hands before, explains Quispe, an indigenous Aymara shop owner, but they didn't do it as much or as thoroughly as they should have. Within her family, Quispe thinks the public-health campaign has been a success: "Normally both Nayeli and my 3-year-old son have constant stomachaches or diarrhea. But in the last few months, they...
...tell you how many times I’ve gotten a line that I’ve used in a story, or even started a story with, that came from just eavesdropping. Just listening to people in a theater before a show, at the student center, a coffee shop. You are always on the job. Grace Paley, a writer whom I adored, advised something else: “Keep a low overhead.” But that’s to worry about after graduation I guess...
...Leslie [Kirwan] could not be less like a bull in a china shop, and yet she is capable of being very direct, and that is a very unusual combination,” Taylor said. “She makes people cope with whatever needs to be dealt with. She will not hide the problem, and she will not sugar-coat it. She’ll deal with them...
...book you talk about former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick advising you to "lose the professor clothes." What did you do? Well, it gave me a great excuse to shop. So I went and bought more professional-looking suits, a lot of suits. But I did buy things with bright colors. I bought red suits and green, and had a good time with it. More formal, absolutely. But I didn't want to look like...
...Quang Hue bridge, he says. Despite the churning currents, people waded in to salvage the wood. Groups of men carried trees into town and sold them that same day. "Some even brought power saws to the site and cut the logs into timber like a carpenter's shop, selling it on the spot," says Dong. "There were so many people that the police and forest rangers couldn't stop them...