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...kids are to rebel against authority. In life as in martial arts, knowledge is power. And only the most powerful, like Chow's Mubai, can share it. He hopes to share it with Jen. Teaching this bright, willful girl is as close as he will come to fatherhood--even if the job carries fatal risks...
...offering such coverage a couple years ago. Industry leader State Farm Group is eliminating the coverage state by state. Third-ranked Farmer's Insurance has stopped the coverage as well. Of the 15 largest underwriters, only Chubb continues to offer guaranteed replacement value, says the Insurance Information Institute. And even Chubb has stopped offering it in harsh-weather zones...
...wuss. And yet I've never told people to pipe down when they were disturbing my peace with their too-loud blatherings on a cell phone. I let them disrupt my naps on the morning train. I even turn the other cheek in restaurants or at the movie theater. Instead, I quietly simmer, indulging violent fantasies that involve the loud-mouthed caller's being stranded in a swamp with nothing but his cell phone and a starving, 1,200-lb. alligator named...
...because faster access to lifesaving treatments--clot-busting drugs, emergency angioplasty, beta-blockers--increases your chances of survival. We've all learned a lot about the Electoral College in this presidential election, but the most important lesson may be the one Dick Cheney taught us about paying attention to even the smallest chest pains...
Both books aim to provide the context for that moment. From Kahn we learn how little even famous sidemen might make from a leader's gig: for the second of the two Kind of Blue sessions, at which Flamenco Sketches and All Blues were recorded, Coltrane, Adderley and Evans received $64.67 each. From Nisenson we learn what Nisenson has written in other books (he quotes himself so frequently that he begins to sound like a tape loop), and that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested...