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With all this e-wisdom between them, I figured Levine and Young must host the world's most civilized family e-mail list. It turns out they don't have one at all. They get so much business e-mail that when it comes to their extended family, they prefer telephone and face-to-face contact...
...insurers don't see it that way, of course. They say they have absorbed losses for years because homeowners tend to understate the value of their homes when buying guaranteed replacement-value policies. That way homeowners get the guarantee of being able to rebuild while saving on premiums, which run about $5 per $1,000 of coverage. Not fair...
...When you get to the emergency room, don't be afraid to say you may be having a heart attack, 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...
Then, like subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, I'd calmly get up and stroll over to him, mumbling, "You don't look so bad," and hit the button a few more times. The other passengers on the now weirdly quiet train would turn to one another and ask, "Who was that...
...Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...