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...tearing apart his suit, Tim turns the daily routine of changing after work into something eccentric—an act of destruction and frustration. Mirroring this act throughout the novel, Ferris takes the typical??corporate America, illness, marriage, and mortality—and reinvigorates it. “The Unnamed” is a poignant, though not always cohesive narrative. A subplot at Tim’s office involving a murder investigation—a trial that he botched when he took ill—distracts from the account of his illness and its effects on those around...
...dated as we think. A recent Ewha graduate who served as president of the Harvard College in Asia Program in Korea told me of her time at the school, “I had a hard time because I’m not the ‘typical?? Ewha girl, I’m not so interested in makeup or clothes. But I don’t think I would have had the leadership positions I had here at a [co-ed] college.” Maybe, despite the opportunities Ewha affords Korean women, the real solution...
Only one year into the Picower-sponsored research, Flier said that the projects that he and his colleagues from other institutions embarked on were “more scientifically adventurous than is typical?? of work funded with money from federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health. Kahn, for instance, received Picower grants to investigate a potential function of fat cells that she said was too preliminary to gain federal support at the time. With the funding stream from Picower unexpectedly shut off, it is unclear whether the researchers will be able to continue the innovative work...
...Then this is scary. But the most important thing...about this plane crash is that it’s scary not because it’s unusual. It’s scary because it’s typical.” The crash is “typical?? because it conformed to a larger theme in Gladwell’s new book “Outliers.” In the book, Gladwell argues that this crash of a flight from Colombia to New York, which resulted in 73 deaths, was caused, at least in part...
...only been enormously productive—with no Internet to keep me permanently on the grid and more hours than I could hope for to read and sleep—but had also been enormously rejuvenating.Compare my experience to the awful—and what seems like somewhat typical??voyage my friend Ariadne took to see her sister in Madison, Wis. this past Thanksgiving.Because her flight was delayed two hours out of Boston, she missed her connector in Minneapolis. (For the record, only a plane would ever pass your destination on the way to taking you there.) This...