Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.
Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.
E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
Creating more direct relationships with consumers, utilizing the resulting data and insights, is increasingly more valuable - and an evolution of the traditional competency of ad-supported television networks.
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
I happen to like vampires more than zombies.
I was even more of a Hagar fan when he was just Hagar and not Van Hagar.
I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.
