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...Tuscans for humoring us. He calls one fantasy "a kind of ultralight meal - stuzzicchini. It's the classic Tuscany book: give people what they want to hear." Then there's the opposite fantasy, equally skewed: "The pasta scotta: pasta swimming in garlic sauce. It's Italy as hell. Heavy stuff. You go to Sicily and how corrupt! Half of that is true." In his book, Severgnini cooks up a compromise dish: "Let's just say that Italy is an offbeat purgatory, full of proud, tormented souls, each of whom is convinced he or she has a hotline to the boss...
...then there are confessions like the one that John Mark Karr made last week in connection with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Ten years ago, the 6-year-old beauty queen's terrible death and weirdly captivating life--the hair, the costumes, the come-hither poses--became the stuff of national obsession at the very moment the O.J. Simpson story was going stale. It even promised, like the Simpson case, to be a family affair, because from the first, suspicion fell on John and Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's parents. But the killer was never identified, the trails all went cold...
...Take this phrase, for example: "There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution." Or this one: The President's orders "violate the Separation of Powers ordained by the very Constitution of which this President is a creature." Good stuff, but not the kind of measured legal arguments that can persuade an appellate judge to agree with Taylor's decision...
...your words, what does the website's tagline "Geek to Live" mean to you? It's about not worshiping technology for the sake of technology, but it also goes into the gender stuff on the site. Most tech sites that you find online are written by men and have a male appeal. Lifehacker has a feminine, girl-geek spin to it, but there's no pink or pictures of lipstick holders. I think that women - there have been studies - are interested in how technology can enhance their lives and not just for the cool factor. That's what Lifehacker...
...seen this green that is here now and I can change my life in a green direction, whether it's transportation, fashion, housing, etc." A lot of environmentalism has been doom and gloom, negative, inspired by fear. We are trying to be positive: 80% of of the stuff we feature are solutions and good news. I try to make it really inspiring so a lot of people come away hopeful...