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...Forbidden Flowers), the movies 9 1/2 Weeks and Swept Away, and two "instructional" tapes from the Better Sex video series: Making Sex Fun and Advanced Sexual Techniques. Her final suggestion, "renting pornography or whatever works," was followed by the advice: "Women relate less to the hard porn, while men tend to be turned on by visuals and Deep Throat." I estimate that this conversation postponed her becoming a grandmother by seven years...
...myself surrounded by dozens of lively, argumentative people who would scream at each other over dinner and then go see a movie together, I began to realize that the main difference between my friend and me lay not in our politics, but in our approaches to conversation. While I tend to find disagreement threatening, for my friend, it was his main mode of interaction. By striking up contention in our conversations, he wasn’t trying to drive me away—he was simply conversing in his usual manner...
Among America’s elite Sinologists, however, it is often not considered proper, or convenient, to frankly discuss many of these issues. As noted China scholar Ross Munro has written, “academic Sinologists tend to produce polite reports and mushy books that rarely go beyond cautiously advancing the consensus of the Sinological establishment. Even when addressing China’s direst problems, they have perfected language and phrasing that will not offend Chinese officialdom. To offend is to jeopardize one’s ability to visit China and interview Chinese officials and academics—access that...
...mistake many folks will make in coming months is jumping back into the market in the wrong sectors as they begin to feel the recovery on a personal level through, say, a bonus, a raise or a new job or simply a heightened sense of job security. Such developments tend to come after companies are already on the mend--and after an awful lot of good news has been factored into stock prices. Consider that while you were logging 14-hour days at the office and repeatedly refinancing your house to make ends meet, the stock market...
Like Salon.com the New York Times and a lot of other popular websites, Love.com uses a personal-ad system created by a company called Spring Street Networks. Spring Street ads tend to be more cerebral than their equivalents on Match.com or Yahoo Personals because they ask questions like "What was the last book you read?" and "What was the worst lie you ever told...