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...right. It's more complicated than Retro. It's really about emotion, and getting us to say "Wow!" or "Gee!" or more when we see a car. Among the six cars on display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949, a hugely popular model that saved the company from post-war extinction...
...room this week, one of the things his interrogators will want to know is just how close the former Enron CEO was to George W. Bush. Their relationship dates back to before Bush was Governor of Texas. Bush sent Lay a chummy note on his 55th birthday in 1997 ("Wow! That is really old," Bush wrote. "It's a good thing your wife is so young and beautiful"). But last week in Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended...
...stream of consciousness thinking went something like this: Holy crap, that’s Carlos Boozer…wow, he looks huge even compared to the other players…hey look, it’s Mike Dunleavy…I could have sworn he was lankier in real-life…oh well, he still looks goofy…who is that, number 30…must be Dahntay Jones…he’s damn smooth with his J, but looks a little too disinterested to really root for…hey, it’s Chris...
...children from divorced families have serious social, emotional or psychological problems, as opposed to 10% of kids from intact families. That's 2 1/2 times the risk--on its face, a stat worth worrying over. Hetherington acknowledges the gap between kids in nuclear and postnuclear families: "You can say, 'Wow, that's twice as big,' as some clinicians like Wallerstein do. But what it also means is that 75% of kids are functioning within the normal range. People don't focus on the resiliency of children...
...Parents are saying ‘Wow, a Korean woman became president of Harvard,’” Kim said...