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...problem is that novelty, by definition, must be new. Innovation most often occurs when ideas or things are brought together in a way that never happened before, and when such juxtaposition occurs, the result is greater than the sum of the parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact...
...hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a ré sum é to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets no breaks in Sauls' courtroom, and so far that has been true...
Well, okay, not best friends. But that's not the point. The point is, final clubs, while made up of individually nice guys, become entities of enormous cruelty, stupidity and tastelessness. It is truly a case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. No member is Mephistopheles, but they have all made a Faustian bargain; their honor and integrity for acceptance into the hippest social scene at Harvard...
...sophomore asking for this sum, I was very nervous. But from the first, they were enthusiastic and gave us the money...So we love our masters," she said...
...their speed, size, snazz and craftsmanship, in their siren call to the restless spirit, cars sum up a lot of American virtues. They also waste natural resources, soot up the landscape and end lives. But that's for another book. Lewis has no photos of afternoon gridlock on the 405. She's here to sing the body automotive: mile-long Caddies outside a drive-in; the family car at Roy's Cafe, Motel & Gas. These elegant images of classic cars magically transport the reader to the intersection of Nostalgia Road and Dream Drive...