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...Corporations genuinely do want to hold on to their customers (airlines notwithstanding, of course) given that your lifetime value as a profitable client is much too high to discard because of a couple of nasty complains. The math is compelling: it costs a lot of money to acquire a customer and relatively little to keep them if they get mad - some free minutes or a couple of bucks off the bill will usually do the trick. The companies know that there's a a certain amount of inertia that keeps us from moving, even if the service is lousy. (Think...
Hannaman might seem to have little in common with the four lead characters on TV's Sex and the City, single women who live the supafly life and discard men quicker than last season's bag and shoes--and look damn good doing it. Her sex life isn't nearly as colorful, for one thing. All of them, nevertheless, are part of a major societal shift: single women, once treated as virtual outcasts, have moved to the center of our social and cultural life. Unattached females--wisecracking, gutsy gals, not pathetic saps--are the heroine du jour in fiction, from...
...claimed, it is difficult to understand why, after leaving the Texas School Book Depository building and picking up a revolver at his rooming house, he gunned down officer J.D. Tippit, who was about to question him. Six witnesses identified Oswald as Tippit's killer. Three watched him discard empty cartridges. The cartridges matched the gun he was carrying when police seized him in a theater...
...even use art as an excuse for something like that. People like to complain that irony is the bane of 21st century culture, but don't forget sincerity. Emin's admirers say that her critics fail to understand that she's requiring us to confront and discard our fastidious disdain for sentimentality. After seeing this mawkish work, you'll want to hold on to that disdain...
...nuclear transfer process. And because more of these zygotes are available than eggs, it may give patients another way of obtaining customized stem cells. In fact, notes Eggan, there may be even more such zygotes available if you count the abnormally fertilized embryos that IVF clinicians discard immediately. Anywhere from 3% to 10% of IVF embryos get either too many or too few chromosomes when they are fertilized; these embryos have no chance of survival and would never be transplanted into a IVF patient. Other than their abnormal chromosome count, however, they are perfectly normal, and Eggan has proven that...