Word: yorkerism
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...Kidder was conducting interviews for a New Yorker profile of the outspoken doctor—and soon was shadowing Farmer on his daily routine of healing and advocating for the world’s destitute...
...cool. Her name is DeeDee Gordon, and she's a co-founder, with partner Sharon Lee, of a new trend-spotting firm called Look-Look. Gordon has a certain notoriety in the trend-spotting industry: she was the original cool hunter, the subject of the famous 1997 New Yorker profile. Gordon and Lee both used to work for Lambesis, but by 1999 they got impatient with the way things were done. They were going out and giving kids pen-and-paper surveys when the kids were using instant messaging and two-way pagers. "We could have kept doing this...
...Culture A new Turkish soda is giving Coca-Cola and Pepsi a fizzy fit - with a little help from U.S. foreign policy. Since Cola Turka hit local shelves two months ago, a high-profile ad campaign has been stoking nationalist sentiment. Starring Chevy Chase as a confused New Yorker struggling to understand why anyone who sips the drink becomes instantly Turkish - sprouting a moustache, cooking stuffed grape leaves and bursting into rousing national song - the launch coincided with the heavy-handed seizure of Turkish soldiers by U.S. troops in northern Iraq. Analysts put Cola Turka's share at around...
...professional financial planner, New Yorker Melissa Levine routinely helps clients guard against unpleasant surprises. But even she has been rattled by the wild ride that mortgage interest rates have taken recently. Since setting out in early June to refinance the loan on her co-op apartment, Levine has watched interest on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage shoot up from 5% to 6%. Although she initially locked in the lower rate, a delay in the processing of her application could have meant missing the 60-day processing deadline--and getting stuck with the higher prevailing rate and a bigger monthly...
...skepticism was ill suited to the subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...