Word: wouldn
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...topped with a poached egg: halibut, salmon, pasta, chorizo, ratatouille, tuna tartare, mushrooms, chicken, crab cakes, asparagus, salad. And it always works, adding a richness and silkiness to everything, a protein-on-protein, Atkins-era overindulgence that makes me psyched to be an American. "Hey, this is delicious, but wouldn't it be better if we plopped some bird ovum...
Well, I really hadn't. They were trying to get as much publicity for their venture as possible, so they made this statement that I'd signed on, but in fact nobody had ever contacted me until much later. And I said no, I wouldn't pay [$210,000] to go into space. Throwing up is a lonely sickness and not something I'd like to pay for. But if it's thrust upon me, it might be a good adventure...
First George W. Bush went to Baghdad when his daddy wouldn't. Now, with the health-care plan the President floated in his State of the Union address, he's literally picking up a page his father wouldn't keep in his health-care playbook. But the son has shrewdly disguised his slow-motion tax increase...
...That talk, says Superintendent David Adams, has led to action. "The attention has allowed us to try things that we wouldn't have tried before," he says. Indeed, Shawn's turnaround is due in part to aggressive new strategies that Shelbyville schools are using to keep kids like Shawn on the right path. They've brought their credit recovery program into the digital era, adopting NovaNET, an online software program that Shawn was able to run through at his own pace and on his own schedule. The high school also opened a separate Student Achievement Center, located at a local...
...apartment block whose resident unemployment level Vercamer reports as 100%. Nearby, two desperately poor men on a bench nurse cans of beer; in the distance a young man shouts at Vercamer about a municipal job the mayor was to secure for him - "One of the local [drug] dealers, who wouldn't consider the pay cut involved in taking a real job", he confides. Would middle class families come to live here...