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...something struck home. “I discovered the intellectual chemistry that happens in a classroom. It was like I got a sip of water and didn’t even know I was thirsty...
...more anecdotal evidence and lawsuits every month, the pressure is mounting. In May, a British study of 200 passengers over the age of 50 taking flights of eight hours or longer found one in 10 developed early signs of DVT afterward. In February, a 10-year-old girl was struck down with DVT after a 13-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, during which she slept in an economy-class seat without moving. Since the beginning of the year, separate DVT suits have been filed against Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Air France and Greece's Olympic Airlines. Australian Anthony...
...natural" drug. "It feels just like drinking alcohol," says a 27-year-old 'shroomer, a TV cameraman who declines to give his name. The psychedelic mindset has also gotten a boost from the burgeoning popularity of drug-induced rave parties and trance music?a global phenomenon that has struck Japan with a vengeance over the past few years...
...Suspicions about prices limit the market," says Hans Neuendorf, a well-known German art dealer who heads artnet.com, an Artprice.com rival that is listed on the German Neuer Markt. "Providing a degree of fairness and realism is good for all the participants." Artnet.com recently struck a deal with Ebay, which will provide its customers free access to part of artnet.com's database. The site displays pictures of the artwork and links to galleries. Artprice.com, in contrast, doesn't use images to avoid copyright issues and does not provide links to galleries or sell art directly. An expert at Sotheby...
...Washington, where I grew up, has always struck me as a curiously unsexual, or asexual, town. The game is power, with sex as an amateurish sideline. The high school game also is about power, which expresses itself in coteries, and in sometimes savage rituals of bullying. Sex in Washington, in any case, has an adolescent, high school quality: the Big-Man-on-Campus-Hits-on-Intern motif, the stolen feels in the White House, as if the Oval Office were the front seat of Dad's borrowed Grand Marquis...