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...huge hit in Europe, might we see the show Stateside? People in the industry aren't sure there's an appetite for another show about big families, especially one with a single mother. "The big draw of Jon & Kate Plus 8 is the marriage," says Sternberg. "People want to see how that works out. The Octomom doesn't have that." But it looks like she could find a lot of fans overseas...
...Sure, buying a green product like one of those long-life compact fluorescent bulbs means giving up the understated softness of a regular incandescent. But you also gain something precious when you buy a compact fluorescent: status. When your friends see the bulb screwed into the socket of your lamp, many of them will think you're a better, more socially conscious person (which you may well be). And as the aphorist Publilius Syrus wrote a couple thousand years ago, "A good reputation is more valuable than money...
...That’s gratifying,” Jaeger says. “We didn’t invent those ideas, for sure, but I feel like our union has had some influence in our written communications and in our meetings with senior administrators...
...Leaders in our union want very badly to be sure that we’re a strong, clear voice representing the things our members care about and dealing as partners with the administrative leaders of the University we care about,” he says. “There may be some difference in tactic, but I think we’re very much all rowing in the same direction and hoping for the same outcomes...
...gain a perceptual advantage, which in this new era of war is all that counts," Scales says. Accurate U.S. reporting of Taliban fighters killed "strikes at the core of the enemy's perceptual dominance," he says. All of a sudden, Scales suggests, the Taliban may no longer be sure that God is on their side. "That's an essential argument in an Islamist country," he adds, "and they may start to question the whole theocratic underpinnings of their movement." That's assuming people in Afghanistan will believe what they're being told by a foreign army. And that the return...