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...sound like a reporter the way you do research for these books. What did you do for this one? There was a great deal of legal research involved because it does center around a lawsuit, but I also had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with families that have children who have OI. I would follow these kids around all day. I would go to school with them. I'd go to physical therapy with them. I remember at one home the mom said, "Will you take Matthew out of the car?" I was like, sure...
There's something very personal about puzzle-solving. You as the solver are matching wits with me as the editor. And when you do it day after day, we develop a personal relationship. I hear from people who say, "I spend every Sunday in bed with you." [Laughs.] When I became crosswords editor at the Times, there was a guy who wrote me and said that starting with a new crosswords editor is like getting a new mistress...
...Stay. Turning the tables on the usual promotions, Las Vegas's T.I. hotel is offering guests a free night in a deluxe room if they spend $169 or more on massages or other services at Wet, the hotel's spa and salon. Spend $299 and get two nights. The offer applies for stays Sunday through Thursday; rooms must be booked by March 23 for travel through March 31 3300 Las Vegas Blvd South...
...cuts are part of China's efforts to revive its economy, which is suffering from dramatic drops in exports and investment, through a wide range of stimulus measures. In November Beijing announced it will spend $586 billion this year to promote growth. While few details of the stimulus plan have been made public, the government says it will use tax cuts and loans to aid 10 key industries including machinery manufacturing, steel, textiles, oil, shipbuilding and electronics. (See 10 things to do in Beijing...
...suit the government program, while expanding sales and service networks into the countryside. This year Chang'an, manufacturer of China's leading minivan, plans to add 1,000 sales and service outlets to its existing 1,260. But its unclear if poor rural consumers can be convinced to spend. "Where's the money?" says Dunne. "The Chinese market has proven pretty stubbornly resistant" to efforts to get rural Chinese to open their wallets...