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...this before (the "bottom" talk's been circulating for at least 1000 points on the NASDAQ by now), the end of the carnage does look to be near. A day as bad as Monday can be good news in itself - they call it "capitulation," when the trading floor is wet with tears - and some analysts hold that it's a must before any turnaround rally can really take hold...
Doula is a Greek word that means "woman servant." Unlike midwives, who deliver babies and are licensed to perform medical tasks, labor doulas provide emotional and physical support to the laboring parents. "I do everything from getting wet cloths for a mother's forehead to relaxation exercises to massage," says Guralnick...
Imagine explaining to chinese farmers pushing oxen through wet rice terraces that in California rice is planted from airplanes. Or coming across an old man scrubbing syringes and needles in a basin for reuse in the local hospital. Or watching fireworks soaring over the beautiful gorges of the Yangtze on Chinese New Year and realizing the town will soon be submerged by the biggest dam in the world...
...Josephson contrived some of the most beckoning brainteasers of postmodernism, especially in the 1960s and '70s. When an anonymous arm holds up a Polaroid of clouds against a cloudless sky, all certainties about certainty are gently undone. And when a parked car is twinned in the radiance of a wet street, you realize that if the world is a funny place, it's because the eye and the mind are jokers of the highest order...
...like this cold, wet and dreary Boston weather, have I got a deal for you. Picture an unlimited stay peacefully bobbing in the animation-suspending -200 C liquid nitrogen tanks of the Cryonics Institute for less than your parents spend on one year of Harvard tuition. That's right, the price of immortality has fallen to the paltry one-time fee of $28,000. Given this one-time capital commitment, and the wonders of compounded interest, members of the Cryonics Institute will painstakingly tend to your body until the as-yet-undetermined time when technological and medical advancements allow your...