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...cocktail for myself and drinking it as I went down the aisle, but I think that did a lot for the up-sell. Even my creepy workplace flirting finally found an appropriate context. "I give you a 9.5 out of 10," Fields said. "You didn't just give that woman a blanket; you opened it up and wrapped it around...
...1980s. The Monster, as he (or she or they) is known, stalked couples making love in parked cars in the hills outside the city, which is something Florentines apparently do quite a lot. He would wait till they were finished, then shoot the man in the head, then the woman. Afterward, he would mutilate...
...material for swift-boating this year is already apparent. There is Obama's loony pastor, his friendship with a former radical, his dealings with a convicted financial sleaze. McCain's friendship with a woman lobbyist is an issue the New York Times fumbled, but it could resurface. McCain was one of the Keating Five, tied to a financial and influence scandal from the early '90s that could be brought down from the attic. And there is his alleged bad temper, a potentially legitimate issue that could be blended with his age in unsavory ways...
...would have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like Top Chef have been telling us for a while now: that the customer-service business is hard work...
Other cultural factors, harder to define, could influence the geography of obesity as well. Yancey, an African-American woman, points out that being overweight isn't looked down on as much in the black community as it is in the white community and that extremely high levels of adult obesity among African Americans--31.2% of black men and 51.6% of black women are classified as obese--may have shifted social norms. (Race isn't an absolute determinant, though--largely African-American Mississippi and overwhelmingly white West Virginia both have high obesity levels.) The same could be true among Hispanics, especially...