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...proliferation of wood-fire cooking] is all a symptom of the yuppification of American pizza...
...relied upon it to get me through everything. The alcoholic is blinded," Musselman said. "My drinking was a symptom of other things, fear, anxiety, anger, loneliness...
Nonetheless, such barbs tend to undermine the morale and pride of the legal profession. Benjamin Sells is a lawyer turned psychotherapist whose patients in Chicago are attorneys. He says some lawyers won't admit in social settings what they do for a living. "The most prominent symptom I see in lawyers is loneliness," says Sells. "They already feel alienated from the very people they are dedicated to serve. If lawyers are struggling to become reconnected to the community and they hear this kind of venom, it's going to drive them more deeply into themselves...
...logic of Congressional voting is only a symptom of a graver malady--one that has spread all the way to the Oval Office. The election mindset has become as deeply ingrained in our society as the Gallup poll. George Bush, our first exemplar of this, spent his entire four year "season of service" gearing up for the following season...
...price war, though, is only a symptom of more fundamental transformation taking place in the industry, not all of which will be to the advantage of the U.S. As the PC has changed from a magic black box to a run-of-the-mill commodity like a television set or a radio, so has the economics of the business. Since there is no mystery to the technology, PCs can be manufactured as well as priced like any other commodity. That fact has helped make computers a more global business, but it has also played into the hands of copycat...