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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Dueling hearts
. “Doctors managed to save the life of a 71-year-old man with two hearts who suffered dueling heart attacks. “We haven’t ever seen anything similar to this case before,” Dr. Giacomo Mugnai said in an interview with MSNBC. At first, … Continue reading
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Wouldn’t that be like planting palm trees in Maimi?
. Actually, they DO have to plant them there. They don’t grow naturally. They have to truck them in, and then skilled workers like this guy, with a special technique that involves heavy-duty, high-strength tarps, drag them into position and … Continue reading
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Summer’s spin and glide moves — skateboards, Gravity Games …
. Sometimes, walking around the block, I hear the whirr of small wheels on asphalt, and then 2 or 3 or 4 skateboarders come slaloming down the hill. There’s the possibility of a continuous half-mile ride there if they run … Continue reading
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My nemesis, my love, my old house
. Nothing else defines “love-hate relationship” for me like my old house. This morning we went out to look at the garden, and passing by the kitchen, a chipmunk darted out from what was supposed to be a sealed coal … Continue reading
What summer should feel like
. One morning you walk out the driveway, to get the newspaper, and it’s there — ‘this is summer’ you say to yourself, smiling slightly because you know that soon you will be sweating slightly. What was it that you … Continue reading
“Sharpen the axe,” as Stephen Covey would say
. I came to Mr. Covey and his seven habits late. I still think his book one of the best things ever written for people in modern organizations, and I am amazed both that not everyone in business and academia … Continue reading
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How they build it, Hong Kong style
. You walk around Hong Kong, and everything screams M O D E R N I T Y. Then you come upon a building under construction, and all the scaffolding is made of bamboo, intricately secured with tens of thousands … Continue reading
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The ‘French’ Bakery, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon
French was far in her past, when she was a girl in convent school. The bakery had reasonable croissants, so I came regularly. She flirted incorrigibly. I asked to take her picture, and she said, “On Wednesday.” When I arrived … Continue reading
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Everything we love is in the hands of its enemies
. “Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.” –Baudelaire.
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