Biography
"Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work."
"In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians."
"Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure."
"Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse."
"Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required."
"While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them."
"Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states."