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Teenagers are inarticulate, acne-ridden lumps of inert matter. The only way you can ever induce movement is by trying to separate one from its mobile phone. And if you can do that then the only way you can stop it attacking is with rhinoceros tranquiliser.
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Jodi Taylor (Roman Holiday (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #3.5))
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the success of Christianity was rooted in the Roman Empire, in its territorial extent, in the mobility that it promoted, in its towns and its cultural mix. From Pliny’s Bithynia to Perpetua’s Carthage, Christianity spread from its small-scale origins in Judaea largely because of the channels of communication across the Mediterranean world that the Roman Empire had opened up and because of the movement through those channels of people, goods, books and ideas. The irony is that the only religion that the Romans ever attempted to eradicate was the one whose success their empire made possible and which grew up entirely within the Roman world.
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Mary Beard (SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome)
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Right. I got this, Bethie. Don’t worry,” she tells me. “I’m going to tear his balls off. We can put them on a chain and hang them in the baby’s room as a mobile,” she growls.
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Jordan Marie (Captured (Devil's Blaze MC, #1))
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One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.
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Mary Gordon (Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays)
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African Americans, like other groups, have always tried to translate upward class mobility into geographic mobility, but remain physically and psychically close to the poorer neighborhoods they leave behind.
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Mary Pattillo (Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class)
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Right next door to the bear gardens on the south bank of the Thames in the last years of Elizabeth's reign sat the main theatres of the day. Permanent theatres were brand sparking new, the very first not appearing until 1576. Throughout the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, theatre had been a mobile activity, and a largely amateur one.
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Ruth Goodman (How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life)
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Marie-Laure isi imagineaza undele electromagnetice intrand si iesind din aparatul lui Michel, arcuindu-se in jurul lor, asa cum descria Etienne, doar ca acum sunt de o mie de ori mai multe unde care strabat aerul in toate directiile decât pe vremea lui - sau poate de un milion de ori mai multe. Torente de mesaje scurte, oceane de conversatii pe mobil, de programe de televiziune, de e-mailuri, retele vaste de fibra si cabluri impletite deasupra si dedesubtul orasului, traversand cladiri, arcuindu-se intre transmitatoare din tuneluri de metrou, intre antene de pe cladiri, reclame la Carrefour, Evian si pateuri semipreparate scaparand in spatiu, apoi revenind pe pamant [...]zburand nevazute peste Ardeni, peste Rin, peste Belgia si Danemarca, peste peisajele pline de cicatrici si mereu in schimbare pe care le numim natiuni. Si chiar atat de greu de crezut ca sufletele umbla pe aceleasi cai? Ca tatal ei, Etienne, Madame Manec si baiatul neamt pe nume Werner Pfennig iau cerul cu asalt in stoluri precum egretele, precum randunelele-de-mare, precum graurii? Ca niste uriase navete pline cu suflete zboara de colo-colo, ba chiar se si aud, chiar daca slab, daca deschizi bine urechile? Zboara peste hornuri, trec peste trotuare, iti strapung haina, bluza, osul pieptului si plamanii, iesind prin partea cealaltă, aerul ca o biblioteca in care reverbereaza inca ecoul tuturor vietilor traite vreodata, al fiecarei fraze rostite, al fiecarui cuvant transmis. [...] Renastem in iarba. In flori. In cantece.
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Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See)
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Flagyl was clearly effective in the treatment of Lyme disease. But how did it work? As early as 1967 The British Journal of Venereal Diseases had published a study showing Flagyl to be effective in certain cases of syphilis, and that it had an effect on bacterial DNA and RNA irrespective of bacterial replication. Could this be the mechanism of Flagyl’s action against Burrelia burgdorferi? The key to Flagyl’s effectiveness on Lyme, however, was not reported until several months after my study was presented. Dr. O. Brorson, a Norwegian researcher, published a paper on Flagyl and its effect on the cystic forms of Lyme disease six months after I presented my research. The cystic form of Lyme disease, it turns out, is one mechanism that Borrelia burgdorferi utilizes to persist in the body. Dr. Brorson reported that Flagyl would cause Borrelia cysts to rupture, and he went on to publish that he could see under the microscope the cell wall forms of Borrelia burgdorferi (helical/spiral–shaped organisms) transform into cystic forms, and under proper conditions convert back into mobile spirochetes. A review of the medical literature revealed that these cystic forms had, in fact, been reported in syphilis. No one had clearly made the link between Borrelia and a cystic form of the organism that could persist for long periods of time in a dormant state. It was a highly evolved survival mechanism that would allow the organism to reemerge when conditions were optimal. My patient, Mary, had been treated initially with Plaquenil, which according to Dr. Brorson’s research also affects the cystic forms, yet it appeared that it was not powerful enough to destroy the dormant forms and prevent a relapse, or to prevent her from passing it on to her fetus. She had also been treated with drugs that addressed the cell wall and intracellular forms of Lyme. Although Plaquenil has some effect on cystic forms, it is often primarily used in antibiotic regimens with Lyme disease to alkalize the intracellular compartment, modulate autoimmune reactions, and affect essential enzymes necessary for bacterial replication. Clearly, however, it is not powerful enough to destroy enough of the
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Richard I. Horowitz (Why Can't I Get Better?: Solving the Mystery of Lyme & Chronic Disease)
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And as Mary Meeker noted in her latest Internet Trends report, digital consumer subscriptions are exploding because of massive new improvements in digital user experiences, particularly for mobile phones. It feels like we’re at the beginning of something very big.
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Tien Tzuo (Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It)
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To this end, industry think tanks recruited a handful of scientists to serve as climate skeptics and paid them to travel around the country to give speeches and press interviews that challenged the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. As investigators discovered, ExxonMobil helped underwrite “the most sophisticated and most successful disinformation campaign” waged since the tobacco days. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, between 1998 and 2005, ExxonMobil funneled $16 million “to a network of ideological and advocacy organizations that manufacture uncertainty on the issue.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) became particularly active.
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Mary Christina Wood (Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age)
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when the Internet made it possible, I was in touch with her daughter, Marylyn, who was living in a mobile home in Utah with a companion. She was the grandmother of eighteen children and the great-grandmother of twenty-two. In what she said online, Marylyn had nothing but kind words to say about both parents, upsetting my conviction, after reading Mary’s memoir, that Daddy was the bad guy.
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Edward Sorel (Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936)
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,,Á," vyjekla a posadila se. Mobil odletěl na druhou stranu ložnice a nepřestával vyzvánět.
Vyhrabala se z postele a pro přístroj došla.
,,No?"
,,Jsi vzhůru?" zeptal se komisař Tvrdík.
,,Ne," zívla.
,,Ty nejdeš do práce?" divil se.
Poškrábala se ve vlasech. ,,Co je za den?"
,,Pondělí," odpověděl.
,,Tak to jdu do práce," řekla a lehla si zpátky na postel.
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Marie Rejfová (Komu straší ve věži (Josefína Divíšková, #2))
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In 1920, Ellen’s family moved into a triple decker, or three-story multifamily home, in Dorchester, a clear sign of upward mobility. Mary entered the white-collar workforce as a stenographer in a grocery store, while Daniel worked as an elevator operator at a telephone company. John became a schoolteacher in a Boston grammar school.
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Cristina Viviana Groeger (The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston)
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About Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. Born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1809, he grew up smart, even though he rarely attended school. While working as a postmaster and surveyor, he began to study law. He married Mary Todd in 1842. Abe eventually entered politics. Shortly after he was elected president in 1861, the Civil War began. Firm in his belief that a divided nation could not survive, Lincoln mobilized the North into action, freed the slaves, and reunified the country. One week after the war ended in April 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed the president at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
Of the Lincolns’ four children, only the oldest, Robert, lived to be an adult. Their next two children, Edward and William, died in childhood. Tad, the youngest, was eighteen when he caught a “severe cold,” possibly pneumonia, and passed away in 1871.
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Gary Hines (Thanksgiving in the White House)
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Indians love baseball,” jokes Charlie Hill, “but we don’t set up camp in the ballpark! Hey, if the Atlanta Braves think that using Indians as mascots is simply harmless fun, then why not have them dress up some white guy in a three-piece suit and have him shuffle around a mobile home parked in the middle of the outfield every time their team scores a hit? Or how about changing the names of a few of these sports teams? Why not have the Atlanta White Boys or the Kansas City Caucasians or the Chicago Negroes, the Washington Jews or New York Rednecks?” My
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MariJo Moore (Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Nation Books))
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Every day I create a new color study using an online or mobile app. So, I decided to write a book on Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization to teach others how easy it is and the joy in doing their own color studies.
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne (Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization)
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Turn two dogs who want to find each other loose on the same continent, and they will find each other. Take their mobile phones away, and two humans can’t even find each other in the same Walmart store.
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Gwynneth Mary Lovas (How To Be A Good German Shepherd Dog: "Self-Help For The Confused")
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What I discovered was that grief could be tricky. It was mobile and could track me for thousands of miles. The faster I drove, the quicker my grief moved. Each time I thought I’d lost it around the last curve in the road, I found it in the passenger seat, weeping. No matter how many days or months I logged on the road, it kept pace.
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Mary Ellen Taylor (The Promise of Tomorrow)
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De retour à la caserne, le fusil rangé au râtelier, après ablutions et avoir revêtu notre tenue kakie, nous nous répandions dans la ville.
Certains d'entre nous, les plus mâles sinon les plus hardis, avaient rendez-vous dans les cafés avec de jeunes femmes dont les maris creusaient ailleurs. Pâles, les yeux
cernés, le sein mobile, ces jeunes et frémissantes créatures s'accrochaient au présent : nos uniformes. Carapaces dont elles nous débarrassaient dans le secret de
chambres initiatiques où elles n'avaient pas tardé à nous entrainer. Comme il était bon de quitter leggings, ceinturon, drap, flanelle, et, enfin nus, de se ressembler !
Comme il était bon d'inventer notre légende, d'afficher l'insolence de nos vingt ans !
En avance de plusieurs lunes sur notre dépucelage, expertes et ne demandant qu'à l'être davantage, ces jeunes mariées fleurant la veuve nous étourdissaient de
voluptés pressenties.
Ô fièvres des lits adultères ! Le sentiment de se trouver en marge de notre destin (mais le destin nous avait placés
là, à cette date et en ce lieu) portait nos étreintes à des violences extrêmes, parfois proches du désespoir.
Cette guerre nébuleuse, fantomatique, dont on osait croire qu'elle allait, un beau jour, s'évanouir par miracle, prit soudain son véritable visage. Le 10 mai 1940, la
foudre s'abattit sur une fraction du globe. Les Prussiens - encore eux ! -, enflés de leurs nombreux cousins, attaquaient la Belgique, la Hollande et le Luxembourg. Sans aucun "préavis". Sans avoir pris de gants ! Le monde civilisé était horrifié ; il ne trouvait point de termes assez durs pour dénoncer cette « odieuse agression », cette
« barbarie d'un autre âge », pour flétrir la violation de neutralité de ces trois petits (et courageux) pays qui ne demandaient qu'à rester neutres !
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René de Obaldia (Exobiographie (Les Cahiers Rouges) (French Edition))
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Companies don't want anyone telling them how to deal with their workers -- they never have; they never will. Stores don't want anyone telling them how to design their entrances; how many steps they can have (or can't have); how heavy their doors can be. Yet they accept their city's building and fire codes, dictating to them how many people they can have in their restaurants, based on square footage, so that the place will not be a fire hazard. They accept that the city can inspect their electrical wiring to ensure that it "meets code" before they open for business. Yet they chafe if an individual wants an accommodation. Because, it seems, it is seen as "special for the handicapped," most of whom likely don't deserve it.
Accommodation is fought doubly hard when it is seen to be a way of letting "the disabled" have a part of what we believe is for "normal" people. Although no access code, anywhere, requires them, automatic doors remain the one thing, besides flat or ramped entrances, that one hears about most from people with mobility problems: they need automatic doors as well as flat entrances. Yet no code, anywhere, includes them; mandating them would be "going too far"; giving the disabled more than they have a right to. A ramp is OK. An automatic door? That isn't reasonable. At least that's what the building lobby says. Few disability rights groups, anywhere, have tried to push for that accommodation. Some wheelchair activists are now pressing for "basic, minimal access" in all new single-family housing, so, they say, they can visit friends and attend gatherings in others' homes. This means at least one flat entrance and a bathroom they can get into.
De-medicalization
No large grocery or hotel firm, no home-and-garden discount supply center would consider designing an entrance that did not include automatic doors. They are standard in hotels and discount warehouses. Not, of course, for the people who literally can not open doors by themselves -- for such people are "the disabled": them, not us. Firms that operate hotels, groceries and building supply stores fight regulations that require they accommodate "the disabled." Automatic doors that go in uncomplainingly are meant for us, the fit, the nondisabled, to ensure that we will continue to shop at the grocery or building supply center; to make it easy for us to get our grocery carts out, our lumber dollies to our truck loaded with Sheetrock for the weekend project. So the bellhops can get the luggage in and out of the hotel easily. When it is for "them," it is resisted; when it is for "us," however, it is seen as a design improvement. Same item; different purpose
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Mary Johnson (Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & The Case Against Disability Rights)
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I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.
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Mary Monroe
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A fast, seaworthy, very mobile diving boat with echo-sounder. Slack water for small area searches, but use fast tides and mobility of aqualung gear supported by small mobile diving boat to cover the large areas, especially in delimitation. Divers and boat handlers to be practised in working together; all divers to have practical underwater archaeological experience and to be well briefed for each separate wreck; land archaeologists with some understanding of the special problems to be carried in the boat whenever possible, and ultimately expected to dive. Basic assumption that the most important part of a wreck search is to go where there is no wreck, so that the characteristics of the natural seabed surrounding
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Alexander McKee (King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose)
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In this manner, language becomes a medium that allows the conscious and unconscious realms to come together in a fluid manner. From this viewpoint, self-stories are effective not so much because they help us make sense of our lives, but because they give us access to the spirited liveliness of language. Indeed, to the extent that our identities are tied to discursive structures, it could be argued that the mobility of language is directly linked to the flexibility of being.
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Mari Ruti (A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture))
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What you believe about climate change doesn’t reflect what you know,” said Dan Kahan, a professor at Yale Law School who studies risk perception. “It expresses who you are."
To illustrate this point, Kahan cited the results of yet another survey by the Pew Research Center. This survey was designed to test basic scientific knowledge and it posed questions like “What is the main function of red blood cells?” When respondents were asked what gas “most scientists believe causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise,” 58 percent chose the correct answer: “carbon dioxide.” There was little difference in the proportion of Democrats and Republicans who gave the right response; among the former it was 56 percent, among the latter 58 percent. (Among Independents, 63 percent chose correctly.)
But polls that ask Americans about their own beliefs about global warming show a significant partisan divide; in another Pew survey, 66 percent of Democrats said they believed that human activity was the “main cause” of global warming, while only 24 percent of Republicans did. This suggests there are many Democrats who don’t know what’s causing climate change but still believe humans are responsible for it and many Republicans who do know, yet still deny that humans play a role. And what this shows, according to Kahan, is that people’s views on climate change are shaped less by their knowledge of the science than by their sense of group identity. To break the political logjam, he argues, Americans need to find ways of talking about climate change that don’t require members of one group or the other to renounce their cultural identity.
“If you show people there is some way of responding to the problem that’s consistent with who they are, then they’re more likely to see the problem,” Kahan told me.
Kari Marie Norgaard is a sociologist at the University of Oregon who has studied how people talk about climate change. She, too, believes there’s a strong cultural component to Americans’ attitudes, but she sees the problem as reflecting the strategies people use to avoid painful subjects.
Norgaard argues that it’s difficult even for people who are privately worried about climate change to discuss the issue in public because on the one hand they feel guilty about the situation and on the other they feel helpless to change it. “We have a need to think of ourselves as good people,” she told me. Meanwhile, the very lack of discussion about the issue feeds itself: people feel that if it really were a serious problem, others would be dealing with it: “It’s difficult for people to feel that climate change is really happening in part because we’re embedded in a world where no one else around us is talking about it.”
“It becomes a vicious cycle between the political gridlock and the cultural and individual gridlock,” Norgaard went on.
What could possibly break this cycle? Norgaard argues that if the nation’s political leaders would candidly discuss the issue “it could be very powerful. It could free up a lot of the hopelessness people feel and allow them to mobilize.”
“I think there are probably multiple levels at which we could break this cycle,” she went on. And though, after more than thirty years of ignored warnings, the challenge has grown all the more daunting, she said, “I don’t believe we get to give up.
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Elizabeth Kolbert (Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change)
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That’s the devil of things as they are now. As soon as any member of the working class shows ability as a leader, if he’s too rebellious to be collared as a foreman by the boss, the men make him an official and he steps right out of their class. Take Joan there. Now think what a power she would have been if she could have been kept in that shop where she used to work. Of course she would have got the sack and had to get another, but she’d have gone on fighting. What happens? She’s pretty (don’t blush, Joan), she’s clever, she is made an official. Then come along the Mary Mauds and the Anthony Dacres” (“and the Gerald Blains,” put in Dacre). “Quite. She is now a member of the middle class. Then she’ll get into Parliament and be quite a lady.
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Ellen Wilkinson (Clash)
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I watched voyeuristically, knowing I was peeping at people in the middle of a collective dream. I imagined myself among them, part of the regimental dance, the teacher’s rosy heat, the huge mobile hope of happiness and vitality. And as I watched, it suddenly occurred to me I had been merely watching the world all my life.
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Mary Gaitskill (Two Girls, Fat and Thin)
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He was like a paperweight, but less mobile.
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Mary Jane Hathaway (Only Through Love (Men of Cane River, #3))