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...writer lives long enough, and gets famous enough, then they eventually start to consider what will happen to all the story nuggets, novel fragments and character sketches tucked away in their hard drives and desk drawers. Some destroy their work themselves; others ask family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than...
...long was it before you completely got over that? Several years. Every time I'd start to date again, I'd compare everybody to him - the good parts, not the bad parts. So nobody ever lived up to that level of happiness that I had felt with him, which was so unfair because there were obviously aspects of him that I wouldn't want to have in a mate. The book is filled with other women's stories of rejection as well. I interviewed a lot of single women, and I kept hearing the same story. "Oh, we were dating...
...horse racing and boxing, experts will point out that a strong start does not mean a strong finish. China is a case in point. Its GDP has grown at a rate of about 10% a year for a decade. The government has done whatever it needed to do to keep the economy on track. It has underwritten the build-up of the manufacturing sector, the telecom and electric infrastructure, and a large and complex financial system. It has also sold parts of the nation's largest companies to the public to give the companies more access to capital. The communist...
That's not to say there wasn't actual good news driving other stocks higher. Nine out of 10 issues on the New York Stock Exchange advanced: some, surely, the start (or continuation) of a long-term upward trend. But should a fabulous day in the market be taken to indicate that a broader market rebound is under way? Probably not. We can hope for that, but in the interest of managing our own expectations, let's not count...
...iPhone. If you already have a Kindle, the app allows you to read the same material on your Kindle and iPhone, without losing your place when you switch devices. Just download the free app from iTunes, register your iPhone with Amazon to send books to your device and start saving paper while saving the publishing industry...