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Humor Anonymous Lawyer www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com Deadpan and ironic, this delicious insider account of life at a big law firm is pure fiction-and should be required reading for attorneys who haven't yet learned how to laugh at themselves. Being a lawyer, according to the author, boils down to "fooling clients...
GELDOF This is a political event, not a cultural event. In order to get political momentum, one guy with a banner is not enough. You need millions. The lingua franca of the planet, as we learned from Live Aid, is not English--it's pop music. From Guangzhou to Bogot?...
When Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen last year from the Munch Museum in Oslo, it was hard to know how much comfort to take from the fact that 10 years earlier, a different version of the picture--there are four--had been nabbed from another Norwegian museum...
It's not easy to culture wild microbes in the lab, but much can be learned by sequencing the genes contained in a sample of earth, air or water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced...
He had plenty of influence in his backyard too. "I learned to respect his opinion," says Albert Lewis, superintendent of the New York Insurance Department in the late 1970s, who had several run-ins with him. "Many times he was right; the department was wrong." In one such case, says...