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...Gore is a curious specimen. To understand why, it helps to know about the scissors. Whenever a memo, article or academic paper sparks the Vice President's formidable mind, he pulls out his scissors and begins snipping. He whittles a page down to a paragraph, the paragraph down to a sentence and that sentence down to the one key phrase that contains, for Gore, the essence of the whole idea. Then he arranges the fragment on his desk among the other scraps of paper--seeds of thought, if you will--already lying there. "You just pray nobody sneezes," says Carol...
...does have many good stories to tell, as we would expect her to after 50 years of wandering aimlessly around. Unfortunately, though, both her anecdotes and her comments, genuine as they are, get tiresome. Too many small, talented beggars and quaint roadside cafes, too many slightly tragic principalities with curious histories litter the pages of this book. The nations and cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which...
...have the same costume designer in miracle-worker Sandy Powell. And, as any true aficionado of the Kevin Bacon Game can tell you, Wings' Elizabeth McGovern was in the otherwise forgettable romantic comedy The Favor with Interview star Brad Pitt. (Actually, The Favor is forgettable anyway, unless you're curious how Brad looks in wire-rims...
Aurore Y. Victor, a first-year law student said she attended the discussion because she was "curious to see what Clinton is doing about the issues of race...
...anticipated that the world might be, well, curious about her case, she was right. Infertility rates in industrialized countries have been rising for three decades, mostly as a result of women delaying childbirth. From 1988 to 1995 alone, the number of American women of childbearing age who suffered from fertility problems jumped from 4.9 million to 6.1 million, a 25% increase. Any breakthrough that could do something about this trend would be big news indeed...