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...those two audio superstars. But even in the '50s and '60s, parading his encyclopedic memory for shtick, he was a throwback to every baggypants tummeler, every silent-movie clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained this precise, predictable rhythm in a 2002 interview with Ed Grant on the Manhattan cable-access show Media Funhouse: "Guy says, 'Where's the watercooler?' I say, 'Alaska,' and get hit with...
...school journalism, perhaps, but with a twist. And in the age of Twitter and hyper-personalized social-networking sites, the publishers may have discovered a model that could set it apart from the other staid papers in a dying industry...
...help on all the cases. Many programs have resorted to hiring physician assistants (PAs) - they're like surgical residents who never graduate - to provide support when no residents are available to cover the cases. PAs can be a truly great help, but they don't have the mind-set of a doctor who stands - or will soon stand - in the lead position. When there's trouble, that mind-set is invaluable. And in surgery, sometimes there is trouble. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...that may well be a boon. If cap-and-trade were passed with the existing biofuel loophole, it could set up a system that would incentivize the expansion of bioenergy at the expense of the environment and carbon cutting. Certainly the error could be fixed later, after the bill is passed - but by that time the financial interests in favor of biofuels would be even stronger, and would surely resist changes. "If this isn't fixed, you could give companies a very powerful financial incentive to go clear land," says Searchinger, who has briefed members of Congress on his research...
...Amelia,” flying is about freedom and joy, an attitude completely forgotten in our modern age, with its long security queues and, since 9/11, vague sense of menace. Today, Earhart’s career is incomprehensible—her solo flights, undertaken simply to set records and to gain publicity, may be viewed with suspicion by audiences unfamiliar with her life before her infamous disappearance...