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from nyt:
In the Penthouse, a True Garden Apartment
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In the master bathroom, for example, some 50 square feet of leafy plants grow on vertical panels that conceal drip irrigation tubes. (Every morning when he shaves, Mr. Blesso probably looks more like Tarzan in the jungle than a real estate developer in New York.) And the stairway to the roof, a construction of steel and tajibo wood designed by Mr. Sanders, is set into a thick bed of plants.
Modest Luxuries for Lean Times
It more or less comes down to status and economics. These days, wines under $10 are generally the result of mass production and economies of scale. Wines made in that manner can be decent but are rarely exciting. Wines made on a smaller scale by vignerons have far greater potential to excel. Of course, they cost more to make, which rules out most of the higher status regions...The real treasures lie in areas thought to be of lesser status.
Drug Maker to Report Fees to Doctors
John C. Lechleiter, chief executive of Eli Lilly & Company, announced on Wednesday that starting next year it intended to post in an online database all its payments to doctors for speaking and consulting services. The postings will “likely include” the names of the doctors, or will provide some other identifying information about them, along with the reason for the payments, the company said.
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the baltimore citypaper discusses children's books:
It's not that children's books are pure entertainment, innocent of any didactic goal--what grownups enviously call "Reading for Fun." On the contrary, the reading we do as children may be more serious than any reading we'll ever do again. Books for children and young people are unashamedly prescriptive: They're written, at least in part, to teach us what the world is like, how people are, and how we should behave--as my colleague Megan Kelso (The Squirrel Mother) puts it, "How to be a human being."
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doug mann posted a philosophical guide to waking life.
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from esquire:
guilty pleasures - the etymology of a phrase gone wrong
by chuck klosterman
In and of itself, the phrase "guilty pleasure" seems like a reasonable way to describe certain activities. For example, it is pleasurable to snort cocaine in public restrooms, and it always makes you feel guilty; as such, lavatory cocaine fits perfectly into this category.
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from lhb:
Aside from being opposed to the war in Iraq, the issue I connect with Obama on most strongly is Universal Health Care. Until recently, I wasn't able to afford health care in the US as a touring musician. I used to think "well, if anything goes wrong, I can always go home to Sweden." The idea that there are millions of Americans who can't afford health care is frightening. The health care system we have in Sweden, though not without its own flaws, is a better system than the one we have here.
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politicians and drugs:
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from the wall street journal:
A story is a string of actions occurring over time -- one damn thing after another, as we glibly say in creative writing classes -- and debt happens as a result of actions occurring over time. Therefore, any debt involves a plot line: how you got into debt, what you did, said and thought while you were in there, and then -- depending on whether the ending is to be happy or sad -- how you got out of debt, or else how you got further and further into it until you became overwhelmed by it, and sank from view.
related:
principles of economics
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music: megapuss - surfing (10.08)
from the passion of indie music:
Megapuss is Devendra Banhart, Greg Rogove (Priestbird), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes, Little Joy), Noah Georgeson (member of Banhart's band and producer), and Aziz Ansari (actor/comedian). "A legitimate band of talented musicians, capable of effortlessly tossing off the finest in California-style tambourine jams."
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searching for chicken titz:
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