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...country far from where you live. But, as dry as much of the Federal Reserve Beige Book can be, there's something calming about its comprehensiveness, a sense of solidarity in misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over the next year. Flip through this report, despair, then go watch a Pixar flick...
...consider that nearly every patient who has a big hip or knee operation will run a fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But let the computer pick up the temperature elevation and make me address a pull down menu that includes "fever of unknown origin" and I have to add a diagnosis to the patient's chart that often means a bigger payment - though the only treatments for this fever are being given anyway...
...making peace is another matter. As the bombs fell on Gaza, the project's Palestinian producer, Yousef Atwa, wrote on the site's blog: "It is hardly possible to take it anymore," and let viewers know that one of the main Gaza characters, an ambulance driver called Abu Khalil, "has a broken heart" after losing a colleague in the war. On the other side, the Israeli line producer Avi Abramov wrote on the blog after the production ended that he had been called up for military duty. "This situation is absurd," he wrote. "I've just spent three months working...
...website the Big Money accused Orman of giving bad advice. The piece generated a flurry of attention, mostly among Orman defenders, who accused the author of twisting the facts. Orman said she was unperturbed. "When somebody is that off base and obviously so self-serving, I don't even let it bother me, because any intelligent person who reads it knows that he is doing it for the sensation of doing it," she said...
...Let's imagine for a moment what the rallying cry of an English Ph.D student might be: "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing...For how do I hold thee but by thy granting...