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...have your life struggles affected the development of your on-air personality? There are a lot of rough edges on me that I sure would like to sand down. I'm trying to work on it every day. I hope I'm a better person than I was five or 10 years ago. I hope I'm a better person than I was last week. But I guess my personal story has made me much more of a libertarian. I don't think the answers are going to come from Washington; I don't think they're going to come...
...properties that make it intrinsically energy-efficient when used in buildings. It insulates well because it's poured and thus doesn't let in wind and water. Its density also means that it stores heat during the day and releases it at night, making it possible to save on air-conditioning and heating. Architects including Ferrier are playing with such possibilities as they design their new buildings. And the ultra-high-performance concretes can be put to surprising uses: in a showroom on the Lafarge campus, there's a table made of concrete that is so thin and elegant that...
...Laughs.] They keep us separated. They put me in a cage after I get off the air. No, as long as I'm fair, I don't think there's a problem at all. I will say that when I started in 2003, nobody spoke to me for six months. I was a strange man in a strange land...
...Hours later, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went on the air, bemoaning those lost and simultaneously pointing across the border in blame. In assuming a hard line, the Prime Minister made the rather dire pronouncement that “there would be a cost if suitable measures are not taken” by India’s neighbors to curb such attacks. The rage of Mumbaikars and Indians in general is understandable. This crime against humanity in Mumbai has shaken India, its neighbors, and its friends. However, it would be a greater tragedy if we let this...
...some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak timidly to the air traffic control booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even as the plane was running out of gas and was in grave danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land. When asked, according to the flight...