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...According to Jupiter Research, annual growth in the $116 billion business, which reached 25% in 2004, is expected to slip to below 10% by 2010. A few retailers like Zappos.com, which sold $600 million worth of shoes and accessories last year, still entice shoppers with free overnight shipping. But that's a big expense for any business to swallow. So more often than not, consumers pay a premium to get goods shipped, and then spend anxious days waiting for their new bathing suit, DVD box set or laptop computer to arrive...
...rather, a bad influenza. And it isn't just the "fat flu" you can catch from friends. Good friends enable all manner of bad habits, even when they're doing nothing at all. Around friends, we slip back into regional accents we've spent years trying to exorcise--redneck recidivism--or embroider our speech with the kind of epic profanity more common to 19th century lobstermen. (That's the bad habit I revert to around my friends, all of whom swear like Friars Club roastmasters...
...those trains, heading into the Village or Williamsburg, to a club or a friend’s apartment. This nocturnal ease of movement scares me. It seems as though the New York night greases the inhabitants of the city, making it easier for them to slip between neighborhoods and boroughs in cabs, trains, on foot...
This quiet revelation stays with me the next time I ride the subway to work. I wonder what would happen if I smile at the person sitting across from me. The next night, when I slip out with my eyes to the pavement, I think that if I look up, I might see into another person deeply enough, and, completely by accident, find the part of them that might have said to that little girl, “That’s very sweet of you. You’re so kind...
...probably began innocently enough, perhaps as a semantic slip. First came the term "outcome-based" medicine, which refers to the practice of determining the value of a treatment by seeing what happens to the patients you do it to. (The shiny new label aside, it's the way we've always done things in medicine.) Then "patient satisfaction" emerged as a relevant outcome parameter - or, the thing you check to see if the intervention was actually a good idea. That seemed reasonable too - is there a better goal than having a happy patient? From there, it was only a side...