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...students can see the 60 stitches that go into one buttonhole and watch the fabric being hand-cut with 13-in. scissors. Still, most of their time is spent, needle and thread in hand, in a brightly lit third-floor classroom overseen by two 60-something master tailors who wouldn't know Stella McCartney from Ringo Starr...
...soon after these books had taken off, I became aware of that fact that, in a sense, I no longer owned the characters. I couldn't really do anything to the characters which would greviously disappoint or shock the readership. Of course, I could theoretically do that, but I wouldn't ever want to do that, because I would be aware of the impact...
...also much less likely to do charity work when we can lose our homes in the process. This is a serious problem for the uninsured. Most doctors are pretty decent folk who actually like what they have spent their lives learning to do, and they wouldn't mind doing some free work. As a group, though, we tend to be quite risk averse. We worry about the downside - it's where we live. Our insurance premiums can be crushing: it's $240,000 a year for a neurosurgeon in New York now. One way or another, it's an expense...
That's not to say that very strict restrictions wouldn't have some effect on slowing the virus. In a 2006 study, Harvard epidemiologists John Brownstein and Kenneth Mandl examined the effect of the sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...
...Nearly lost his 1992 Senate race after feminists mobilized against him for grilling Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings (he called her testimony "flat-out perjury"). In 2004, his remark that a Supreme Court nominee who opposed abortion rights wouldn't pass Senate confirmation almost cost him the chance to run the hearings...